A large, rocky asteroid is going to fly by Earth next week.
These are the most common group of asteroids we know of, and they all have a similar orbital length to Earth – asteroid 1994 PC1 orbits the Sun every 1 year and 7 months in Earth time, at a distance of between 0.9 and 1.8 times that of Earth.The flyby also gives amateur astronomers and stargazers a chance to see the massive rock hurtle past.
The asteroid will be traveling at the mind-boggling speed of around 19.56 kilometers per second relative to Earth, which means it'll appear similar to a star, but will travel across the night sky across the evening. At a magnitude of 10, the asteroid will be too dim to be seen with the naked eye or binoculars. But if you've got at least a 6-inch backyard telescope, you should be able to get a glimpse of it as it whizzes past, according toif you've got a backyard setup.over the holidays, it's easy to feel stressed about an asteroid passing this close to Earth. But if the film taught us anything, it was to trust the scientists and their orbital calculations.
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