Exactly 7 Years From Today A Massive Asteroid Will Get Closer To Earth Than Some Of Our Satellites. Should NASA Visit It?

今日の週末の英語の習慣化の題材は...

Space物、Asteroidの地球接近、度々報道されてはいますが、今回は7年後の話です。

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Exactly seven years from today—on April 13, 2029—the “Potentially Hazardous Asteroid” (PHA) called Apophis will pass inside the orbits of our geosynchronous satellites.

That’s about 23,000 miles/37,000 kilometers from Earth’s surface.

That‘s close.
Apophis is enormous. Discovered in 2005, it’s reckoned to be about 1,100 feet/340 meters in diameter. That’s about as tall as the Empire State Building in Manhattan, New York.