Asteroid 2022 UN5 is dangerously zooming to Earth soon, a 100-foot giant, rushing at a speed of 29520 kmph.
The Asteroid was predicted to hit Earth on November 5, 2022, today, but they are still unsure of the date and location of its crash. The Aerospace Corporation reports that “Our latest prediction for #CZ5B rocket body reentry is:
🚀04 Nov 2022 11:20 UTC ± 3 hours
Reentry will be along one of the ground tracks shown here. It is still too early to determine a meaningful debris footprint. Follow here for updates:
Our latest prediction for #CZ5B rocket body reentry is:
🚀04 Nov 2022 11:20 UTC ± 3 hours
Reentry will be along one of the ground tracks shown here. It is still too early to determine a meaningful debris footprint. Follow here for updates: https://t.co/KZZ9LgLk0k pic.twitter.com/GlnE8C0Iok— The Aerospace Corporation (@AerospaceCorp) November 3, 2022
What is this Asteroid?
The 100-feet-long Chinese rocket booster dangerously steered toward Earth is a huge remnant of China’s Long March 5B space rocket, Mengtian that was launched as the third module to the Tiangong space station on October 31.
How Close Will It Come to Earth?
NASA’s JPL data has informed sources that this space rock will come as close as 3.51 million miles to Earth.
How Risky Is It?
While Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) advises that debris from space entering Earth’s atmosphere should not exceed a one-in-10,000 chance of injuring or killing a person, China, unfortunately, exceeds this limit.
According to Aerospace Corporation, the space rocket’s core booster a size of a 10-story building is set to crash on Earth today, putting 88% of the world’s population at risk. Experts at the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS) are busily tracking the rocket body and will soon release their analysis. However, there is only a one in one trillion chance that a person might be harmed by falling space debris because the debris usually disintegrates.
Long March 5B is a gigantic rocket. The core stage measures 33-meter (108 feet) in length and weighs roughly 22 metric tons. While smaller spacecraft that glide off their orbits and plummet toward Earth usually burn up in the atmosphere and do not cause any damage. But the same scenario cannot be expected in this case. There is a 10-40% probability that the rocket would crash right into Earth’s surface.
Why Is This Story Important?
Usually, after the core stage clears from its rocket, the resulting debris would splash into oceans or onto uninhabited areas. Here, the case is different. Long March 5B, China’s heaviest rocket, is crafted differently. It is built to travel along with the space module it is carrying into the orbit of launch.
This is specifically hazardous because debris from the rocket can fall upon Earth and cause a lot of damage. The remnants are predicted to land on Earth today
Where Will the Rocket Land?
It is uncertain where the rocket remnant would land.
“The uncertainty of where the large debris will ultimately land presents a level of risk to human safety and property damage that is well above commonly accepted thresholds,” said Aerospace on its website.
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