Space Rock skims right past Earth

- It is tight, but you can go to sleep peacefully. The asteroid 2013 TX 68, a space clog with a diameter of 30 meters, will just a bit too early March pass through the earth, but to a collision, it does not come, as has calculated NASA.

NASA follows the stone since 2013 and has calculated that the passage will be around March 5th. The smallest distance between 2013 TX 68 and Mother Earth can a sloppy 17. 700 kilometers. Quite a distance, but a hair's breadth of cosmic concepts. To illustrate: the moon is about 20 times farther from our world and most communications satellites orbiting about 36 000 km above the earth's surface.

Entirely sure the orbit of 2013 TX 68 NASA is not. The asteroid would also be 14 million kilometers can pass from the earth. In 2017, the thing passes us again. The probability that our planet than is hit, is now estimated at 1 in 250. 000. 000. 2013 TX is, moreover, about twice as big as the piece of space rock that crashed in Cheljabinsk in 2013.