In 2029, the asteroid Apophis will fly at a distance of 30 thousand km from the Earth, on February 8, 2022, the asteroid 2007 UY1 will approach the Earth, it will be at a distance of just over five million kilometers from the planet. A potential collision with asteroid d2022 AE is possible on July 4, 2023.
Asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) passed on January 19, 2022 at a distance of about 2 million km from Earth. Roscosmos clarified that this is almost five times further than the Moon.
Earlier, the All-Russian Research Institute for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations (VNII GOChS) of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that the asteroid Apophis with a diameter of 400 m will fly up to the Earth at the distance of the orbits of geostationary satellites on April 13, 2029. In turn, Roscosmos stated that there is a low probability of a collision between the Apophis asteroid and the Earth. “The observation results have clarified the parameters of its orbital motion.
This increased the reliability of long-term forecasts of its approaches to the Earth. Result: the probability of a collision is very, very low,” Roscosmos said in a message on Telegram.
Asteroid 2022 AE1, which was discovered by American scientists on January 6, 2022, may collide with Earth in the summer of 2023. This follows from a message on the website of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), a NASA laboratory. The asteroid was discovered at Mount Lemmon Observatory in Arizona. According to scientists, it has the highest risk of collision with the Earth of all other near-Earth objects. The diameter of the asteroid is 70 m. It moves at a speed of 19.83 km/s. The object is within the limit of observability for large telescopes.
So far, on the 10-point Turin scale, the asteroid has received 1 point. With a score of 10, the collision is assessed as inevitable. Scientists estimate the probability of a collision at 1 in 1,700.
On February 8, 2022, asteroid 2007 UY1 will approach Earth; it will be at a distance of just over five million kilometers from the planet, which is approximately 14 distances from the Earth to the Moon, according to NASA data. The diameter of the celestial body can reach 150 meters. This means that, in theory, it could cause serious damage to the planet in the event of a collision. In addition, 2007 UY1 belongs to the Aten group of asteroids, that is, its orbit intersects the Earth’s orbit from the inside.
But according to current calculations, the theoretical probability that it could one day collide with Earth is extremely small.