NASA takes advantage of the large meteorite that is heading to Earth to test its ability to handle threats from the universe
The 2012 TC4 meteorite is quite large and is facing the Earth at a speed of 14km / sec. As expected, on October 12, 2012 TC4 will fly through our planet's trajectory at a distance of 43,500km, equal to 1/8 of the distance to the Moon.
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The US Aeronautics and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) said the meteorite did not pose a threat to the Earth and that they would take this opportunity to test the ability to deal with the threat of cosmic meteorites, from The activity of meteorite tracking and detection network worldwide gives the possibility of cooperation to find a truly potential meteorite risk.
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The 2012 TC4 meteorite was first discovered 5 years ago, with a diameter of 10 - 30m.Scientists predict it to be as big or larger than the meteorite named 10-ton Chelyabinsk that fell to Russian territory in 2013.
When the incident happened, fortunately no one died but hundreds of buildings were affected and thousands of glass doors were blown away, about 1,200 people had to need medical assistance. From many Russian and Kazakh territories, one can see the bright light of Chelyabinsk meteorite.
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