MADRID (EUROPA PRESS / Drafting) The NASA has denied risk of impact with Earth asteroid 2014 UR116, about 400 meters in diameter and discovered on October 27 in the Observatory Kislovodsk, Russia.
In response to news media, the Program Near Earth Object NASA has stated that while this asteroid has an orbital period of three years around the sun and returns to the vicinity of Earth periodically, not a threat because its path does not pass close enough to Earth orbit.
The Russian Space Agency had warned, meanwhile, the proximity of the orbit of the asteroid with the Earth’s orbit.
Meanwhile, Tim Spahr, director of the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge Massachusetts, has recalculated the orbit of this object after realizing it was the same as that of an object observed six years ago.
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These calculations dismiss this object as an impact threat to Earth (or any other planet) for at least the next 150 years.
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