However, some of an asteroid this size might have gotten through to Earth’s surface, and an asteroid this big is capable of causing some regional damage, depending on various factors such as composition, speed, entry angle, and location of impact. If the asteroid had entered our atmosphere, a great portion of the space rock would have disintegrated due to friction with the air. With an estimated diameter of 157 to 361 feet (48 to 110 meters), asteroid 2018 GE3 has about three to six times the diameter of the space rock that penetrated the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February 2013, causing some 1,500 people to seek treatment for injuries, mostly from flying glass.Īsteroid 2018 GE3, an Apollo type earth-crossing asteroid, was flying through space at 66,174 miles per hour (106,497 km/h). EDT on April 15, the space rock passed even closer to the moon than it had to Earth. According to NASA, hours later, at about 5:59 a.m. That’s in contrast to the moon’s quarter-million-mile (400,000 km) distance. Its closest point to Earth was just 119,500 miles (192,317 km) away. EDT (6:41 UTC translate UTC to your time) on April 15. Closest approach to Earth occurred at around 2:41 a.m.
First observed at Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona on Saturday, April 14, 2018, the asteroid – which has been labeled 2018 GE3 – swept past us at about half the Earth-moon distance early Sunday morning according to clocks in North America. Image via Tomruen/ Wikimedia Commons.Ī medium-sized asteroid buzzed by Earth just hours after being detected this weekend. The orbit appears to extend to the inner part of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Illustration of the orbit of asteroid 2018 GE3.
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