March 9 an asteroid will
A recent report published by NASA said the 2013 asteroid ET, about 100 meters long, equivalent to a 35-storey building, will fly over the Earth on Saturday, March 9.
The Catalina scheme finds American asteroids that discovered this object on March 3. The asteroid's diameter ranges from 45 to 140 meters.
The flight trajectory of 2013 ET will be 972 thousand kilometers from the Earth (2.5 times the distance to the Moon), much further than the recent " Asteroid " guest of the 2013 EC.
NASA radar astronomers at Goldstone plan to conduct celestial exploration on March 7 and 10.
Scientists hope to receive radar images and size and motion parameters of 2013 ET.
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