“There will be a very impressive and very bright fireball in the sky,” scientists predict.
And asteroid recently discovered is on a collision course with Earth and will hit our atmosphere around 5:15 p.m. ce Tuesday December 3. Baptized COWECP5it should crash in northern Siberia, Russia.
The scientists of theEuropean Space Agency, which gave the alert this Tuesday morning, claim that the small space rock, measuring 70 centimeters in diameteris expected to burn up in the atmosphere and pose no threat to humans on the ground.
He was detected only seven hours before the collision.
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A small asteroid has just been spotted on a collision course with Earth. At around ~70 cm in diameter, the impact will be harmless, likely producing a nice fireball in the sky over northern Siberia around seven hours from now at ~16:15 +/- 05 min UTC (17:15 +/-5 min… pic.twitter.com/ie9yj0FHfB
— European Space Agency (@esa)
“It will be dark above the impact site.”
“It’s a small event, but it will nevertheless be quite spectacular,” declared Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s University Belfast, to the science magazine New Scientist. “It will be dark above the impact site and, several hundred kilometers away, there will be a very impressive and very bright fireball in the sky.
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