(ORDO NEWS) — The number of near-Earth asteroids has crossed the 30,000 mark, according to NASA.
All asteroids are tracked by the European Space Agency‘s Near-Earth Object Coordination Center (NEOCC) and NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).
All these space objects can crash into the Earth, their collision threatens the planet with a global catastrophe. These asteroids are located at a distance of about 45 million km from the Earth’s orbital path.
Of the 400 new objects, 50 are over 140 meters wide. An asteroid of that size could destroy a city. One asteroid is also more than 1 km wide, which could destroy a much larger area in a collision.
It is noted that a network of stations that detect dangerous meteorites was deployed in 2004 after the discovery of the asteroid Apophis, which with a high probability could collide with the Earth.
Earlier, Esoreiter said that the American DART probe made a successful collision with the near-Earth asteroid Dimorph as part of an experiment to protect the Earth from potential threats in the face of asteroids.
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