Nasa, now it’s official Earth has a mini moon and is called HO3 2016 – News Italian

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  

 
 

  

Now it’s official, Earth has another Almost Moon, an asteroid that comes close and moves away from the Earth at the same time rotating around the sun. If it is not a second moon we can say that safe is a celestial body that walks in parallel with the Earth for centuries.

the asteroid in question is called 2016 HO3 and to its distance from Earth, it can not be considered a real satellite as it has never been approached over 14 million kilometers, but it seems to be really a good companion of the Earth journey. the asteroid seems to have been discovered by astronomers last April 27 and , then it is a fairly recent discovery made thanks to the telescope Pan-Starrs 1, operating island of Haleakala to Hawaii.Una discovery that seems to have created several controversies among astrophysicists, although still do not know the reasons. Once this asteroid discovered by the NASA Telescope, the experts began to study his lines right now and has emerged that these were found to be very similar to those of the Moon.

“Since 2016 HO3 wheel in a very unique way around our planet, and the fact that never ventures far, we can say that it is a quasi-satellite of the Earth. Another asteroid (the so-called 2003 YN107) followed a similar orbital pattern for a short time over 10 years ago, but then walked away. The ooggeto of this new discovery, however, has a much more stable way and by some calculations already undertaken it seems that this will continue to follow a mathematical model for centuries to come, “ says Paul Chodas , ie the director of the Center Neo, NASA. with regard to its size we can say that these seem really low, or no more than 36.5 meters in diameter with a width of about 91 meters. This small object keeps us company for over a century, has an inclination of about 8 degrees and orbits the Sole exactly 365.93 days, a bit ‘faster than our planet (365.24 days) because when it is closest to the Sun is moving faster, and when it is more distant orbit more slowly.

the planet, called Kepler 452b, is almost the same size of the Earth is in the Goldilocks zone , or “living area” of a star system “the discovery certainly not surprising and it shows on the one hand because the ‘empty space’ is actually much more full than you think, from ‘more than is essential to upgrade the network discovery and monitoring of potentially dangerous asteroids to the Earth “, said the expert, topics to be discussed during dell’Asteroid Day or the World Day dedicated to asteroids scheduled for June 30 and organized to raise public awareness of these delicate and fascinating themes.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

Updated: June 22, 2016 at 06:11