First detected in 2009, JF1 is a 130-meter-diameter asteroid to which NASA and the Sentry collision system have paid special attention to the probability of its impact on our planet, placing it in the category of Object Near the Earth (NEO, for the acronym in English).
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The space agency predicts the event for May 6, 2022 with a probability of 0.026% according to the Palermo scale, i.e. 1 in 3,800; so they consider it “potentially dangerous.”
This large asteroid, according to NASA, is comparable to the dimensions of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and could reach, at the time of impact, a speed of 95,000 kilometers per hour.
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The aeronautical administration said in a statement that “some asteroids and comets follow orbital paths that bring them much closer to the Sun than usual and therefore to Earth.”
The collision system from which this information was obtained continuously scans the asteroids in the universe by size, speed, dimensions and date of appearance, as well as their possible impacts for the next 100 years.
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In 2009 JF1 has been identified as the sixth most dangerous asteroid to date on the European Space Agency’s Near Earth Risk List. However, NASA experts seek to attack such celestial bodies to divert them from their trajectory.