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A large asteroid passes 'skimming' the Earth

It was about 40 meters in diameter.
on Monday flew to 60,000 kilometers of the Pacific.
came to be seven times closer than the moon.

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The hypothetical impact of an asteroid hit the Earth has been an inspiration for science fiction films, although not impossible to happen.

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In fact, an asteroid between 30 and 40 meters in diameter, a size equivalent to a ten-story building, spent Monday and 60,000 miles of the southeast Pacific, a distance seven times closer than the moon.

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Rob McNaught of the Siding Spring Observatory (Australia), detected the asteroid, called 2009 DD45, on Friday, saying that would miss the Earth "by little."

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"No object of this size has never been observed so close," he said.

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Peter Brown, an astronomer at the University of Ontario (Canada), said it is the one that has come since 1973 and has a similar size to the Tunguska , which ended in 1908 with 2,000 square kilometers of forest in Siberia.

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Salvador Sanchez, director of the Observatory Astronomical Mallorca (OAM), explained to 20 minutes with that diameter "could wipe out 3,000 square kilometers, equivalent to the island of Mallorca."

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According to Sanchez, were found about a thousand dangerous asteroids, while noting that the concern is "the 300,000 objects that cross Earth's orbit and have not been discovered."

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avoid a crash?

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Salvador Sanchez, the ATO said that the United States in 2007 developed a protocol for risk if a large asteroid collision.

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Sanchez says that if you look at the asteroid 15 days in advance can avoid a collision using rockets tugs, which would push to change the orbit.

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With less time, "the only option is nuclear destruction."

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