at the Institute of Applied Mathematics. MV Keldysh of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that in mid-June, two potentially dangerous large asteroids – (488453) 1994 XD and 2020 DB5 will approach Earth. This is stated in a post telegraph channel International Optical Telescope Network IPM RAS.
It is stated that the dimensions of the asteroids are between 400 and 800 meters.
1994 XD will pass Earth on June 12 at a distance of 3.2 million km (8 times farther from the Moon). The 2020 DB5 will pass near Earth on June 15 at a distance of 11 times the Moon.
In April, Zhang Rongqiao, Chief Designer of China’s Tianwen-2 space mission declarationThat the PRC plans to launch a spacecraft of the same name around 2025 to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and study a comet. Zhang said the mission’s main purpose is to send a probe to the near-Earth asteroid 2016HO3 to collect samples.
Source: Gazeta
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