Asteroid 'shaves' along earth in February

washington - According to the American space agency NASA, an asteroid will fly past the Earth at relatively close distances in early February. The celestial body with the name 2002 AJ129 will rage past our planet on February 4 at 10.30 pm around 4.2 million kilometers. That is about ten times the distance between the earth and the moon.

With a diameter of around one kilometer, the asteroid of medium caliber discovered in 2002 by an observatory on Hawaii. He will pass the earth at a relatively high speed of about 34 kilometers per second (122,400 kilometers per hour).

There is no danger to our planet. 'We have been keeping an eye on this asteroid for 14 years and we can calculate its orbit accurately,' said NASA expert Paul Chodas according to Belga. 'Our calculations predict that there is no chance that 2002 AJ129 will clash with the earth on February 4 or at any other time in the next 100 years. '