NASA ruled that an asteroid 400 meters clash against … – The Reason

The NASA has denied risk of impact with Earth asteroid 2014 UR116, about 400 meters in diameter and discovered Oct. 27 at the Observatory of 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 regularly, does not represent a threat because its path does not pass close enough to Earth orbit.

Meanwhile, Tim Spahr, director of the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge Massachusetts, has recalculated the orbit of this object after becoming realized it was the same as that of an object observed six years ago.

With the two sets of observations, the future movement of asteroids was simulated forward using automatic calculations performed by the Sentry system developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA.

These calculations dismiss this object as an impact threat to Earth (or any other planet) for at least the next 150 years.