The moment an astronomical event previously calculated by scientists is confirmed will never cease to amaze. Asteroid 1994 PC1, just discovered in the mid-1990s, is scheduled to approach our planet on the night of January 18. So space scientists pointed their observatories at the correct coordinates to watch the rock move through the stars.
A specific observatory, the new Guille y de Solà Telescope (TGS) at the Pujalt Observatory in Barcelona, Spain, captured the sequence of asteroid 1994 PC1’s trajectory. Additionally, he recorded his passages in a video posted on his YouTube account, which was shared by the 20-minute portal.
According to the information from the aforementioned portal, this particular asteroid has a diameter of 1 km. It passed the closest point to Earth, about 1.9 million kilometers, or five times the distance between Earth and the moon.
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So it’s a spectacle that astronomers and space enthusiasts don’t want to lose in detail. That’s how they tracked it, and in addition to capturing it on video, they managed to record new data on the rock as it panned around the sun and orbited closer to Earth.
Asteroid’s distance from the world
Josep Maria Llenas, astronomer at the Observatory Astronomical Park de Pujalt, provided a 20-minute statement in which he explained the follow-up to the asteroid to complete the rule out that PC1 in 1994 was considered a danger to Earth, because it affects the probability.
“This asteroid is not currently dangerous to Earth. However, this and many other follow-up work help the scientific community to better tune close approximations in the future,” Llenas explained.
The scientists detailed that the asteroid completed its orbit around the sun in about 570 days. But that doesn’t mean it’s taking a new approach at this point, as it has an elliptical motion, like all space rocks that transit in areas close to our world.
Enjoy a video of the 1994 PC1 channel taken by the Guille y de Solà Telescope (TGS) at Pujalt Observatory.
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