The asteroid, known as 2021 KT1, is about 600 feet, the size of the New York Olympic Tower or the Seattle Space Needle.
Bennu, the asteroid currently being explored by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, will have its various features named after mythological birds and ‘bird-like creatures,’ according to NASA.
The decision was made by the International Astronomical Union Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature and NASA.
A variety of features on the asteroid will be named, including craters, rocks, boulders, trenches, grooves, ridges, and peaks.
Asteroid 101955 Bennu is a rocky carbonaceous asteroid that was discovered in late 1999.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which was launched in September 2016, will spend months studying the asteroid before ultimately descending to collect a 60g sample from the space rock’s surface.
At this point in time, the Bennu mission team has been tasked with finding potential sample sites.
And it gradually gave birth to humans, who soon rose to the top of the food chain.
It not only changed the way humans do warfare but also gave us the capability to destroy our planet and the rest of the solar system.
And, for many years, scientists have debunked the concept developed by Hollywood films that it is possible to destroy the calamitous asteroid headed towards our planet.The reason behind the caution is quite simple.
The study of LLNL even concluded that humans could even destroy asteroids months before the expected collision.
Nevertheless, the simulation also revealed that even successfully getting a spacecraft holding a nuke might be a severe undertaking.
Nuking an entire space rock accelerating towards Earth might need genius planning and a significant number of risks.An asteroid of a size similar to the one that impacted Earth sixty-four million years ago might mean impending doom for the planet.
Earth’s gravity bent the trajectory of asteroid C0PPEV1 – also known as 2019 UN13 – as it swept only 3,852 miles (6,200 km) above Africa.
Asteroid C0PPEV1 – now renamed 2019 UN 13 – spotted in the early morning hours of October 31, 2019, by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, and by other observatories soon afterward.
According to simulations, it passed above southern Africa within 3,852 miles (6,200 km) at the moment of closest approach, around 13:45 UTC (9:45 a.m. EDT; translate UTC to your time) on October 31.
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