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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Captured asteroid, flying very close to the Earth. It is felt that this forgotten Russian unit

Asteroid 2010 AL30 eve approached the Earth at a distance less than one third the distance to the moon and struck astronomers to its unusual orbit. Scientists can not understand what it was: there is even the view that earthlings watched not a natural body, and a simple space debris or even "forgotten" Russian space unit in orbit. 

According to RIA Novosti, 2010 AL30 asteroid was discovered on January 10 with the help of telescopes at the experimental site of Lincoln Laboratory (USA, New Mexico). Attracted the attention of scientists that it moves in an orbit nearly coincides with the orbit of the Earth.

"Kompyulenta" wrote that the Italian astronomers have captured an asteroid that passed the Earth at a distance equal to one third the distance to the moon (however, the danger is not represented, since burned to the ground to the atmosphere)

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