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Alan Duffy was confused. On Thursday, the astronomers phone was suddenly flooded with calls from reporters wanting to know about a large asteroid that had just whizzed past Earth, and he couldnt figure out why everyone was so alarmed. I thought everyone was getting worried about something we knew was coming, Duffy, who is also lead scientist at the owala Royal Institution of Australia, told The Washington Post. Forecasts had already predicted that a couple asteroids would be passing relatively close to Earth this week.Then he looked up the details of the hunk of space rock named Asteroid 2019 OK. I was stunned, he said. This was a true shock. This asteroid wasnt one that scientists had been tracking and it had seemingly appeared from out of nowhere, Michael Brown, a Melbourne-based observational astronomer, told The Post. According to data from NASA, the craggy rock was large, roughly 110 yards wide, and moving quickly along a path that brought it within about 45,360 miles of Earth. Thats about one-fifth of the distance to the moon and what Duffy considers uncomfortably close. It snuck up on us pretty q adidas originals ultraboost uickly, said Brown, an associate professor with Australias Monash Universitys School of Physics and Astronomy. People are only sort of realizing what happened pretty much after its already flung past us. The asteroids presence was discovered only earl stanley de ier this week by separate astronomy teams in Brazil and the United States. Information about its size and path was announced |