Asteroid 1994 PC1 is approaching.

These days there is no asteroid that passes within 7 and a half million kilometers from the earth, but an asteroid is approaching that will pass close to us on January 18, an asteroid that has been a real headache.

Some media have become intricate in a spectacular way because they claim that this particular asteroid in 1994 PC1 is more than 1000 kilometers in diameter, really the headlines are spectacular, the amazing thing is that some of them are quite important media.

To start calmly because there is no risk of collision, it will pass some very safe distance of kilometers from us or some or about 5.15 times the distance that separates the earth from the moon and 1994PC1 a little more than a thousand meters, actually it measures 1053 meters with an estimation margin of error of about 303 meters.

It is also that there is no asteroid of this size, there is no asteroid that measures more than 1000 km, Cérez that was considered an asteroid until recently and that is now a dwarf planet reaches that size it has 945 kilometers in diameter, to find Bodies of more than a thousand kilometers that are not planets of course we have to go beyond Neptune and look for them among the dwarf planets or aspiring dwarf planets.

To be fair to journalists, because perhaps it was a mistake and to investigate this matter you have to go to the original source that is to say to NASA, what you are seeing above is the data table of in this specific case of the asteroid 1994 PC1, the NASA is one of the entities that studies asteroids and has registered most of the known asteroids. In this specific case, we can read this figure in terms of the diameter of the asteroid, it could have been wrong to read 1000 instead of 1,000.

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