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Giant asteroid hurtles towards Earth at high speed

Flying asteroid exceeds the size of the “Chelyabinsk” meteorite twice.

Flies to the Earth asteroid 2012 TC4 is the size of two of the Chelyabinsk meteorite. According to scientists, cosmic shrapnel will fly only 44,88 thousand kilometers from the planet.

An asteroid with a diameter of 40 meters October 12 at 7:42 in the Ural time will fly in a small distance from the Ground, said astrophysics. In comparison with other space objects of the TS, the fragment is relatively small, however the only one that will be in close proximity to the planet. This was told by representatives of the Department of astronomy, geodesy and environment monitoring of the Urfu.

Scientists have calculated the speed at which the asteroid is approaching the Earth — 27.54 thousand kilometers per hour. And the famous Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013, the size was less than twice.

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