The sun destroys the near-Earth asteroids – scientists – RSUTE

Moscow / 18.02.2016 21:56 / RSUTE.ru

Many of the asteroids that fall into the near-Earth space, grinds sun. This was reported by scientists from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu (USA)

A team of researchers led by Robert Dzhedike had a problem -. A detailed map of all near-Earth objects (asteroids, comets) of the solar system. However, in the process, the researchers drew attention to the fact that near the Sun asteroids mysteriously disappeared, and it happened with nine out of ten of the observed objects. But recently, this phenomenon has been unraveled by scientists.

It should be noted that for eight years, astronomers have collected data about nine thousand facilities with a hundred thousand images collected

Catalina Sky Survey.

As it turned out, in the asteroid belt (the space between Mars and Jupiter) in the vicinity of Earth, Venus and Mercury are about the same number of asteroids, as predicted by the model of their movement. But in the solar space they disappeared.

A year scientists have searched for the answer to this riddle, checked their calculations. As a result, it was concluded that the disappearance of the asteroid – it is a fact, not a model error. Scientists have found a number of explanations for this phenomenon. The first – under the influence of solar radiation increases the rotational speed of the asteroid, as a result, gravitational forces are no longer able to hold the monolithic state of the celestial body, and it just breaks up into small pieces.

The second explanation is the high temperature of the solar space, which It causes thermal destruction of the asteroid’s surface, like the clay at the bottom of a dried-up pond. Additionally, this can be explained by the fact that inside the asteroids are volatile substances that at high temperature become gaseous. As a result, there is an explosion inside the body, which destroys the asteroid.

However, astronomers are its conclusions as hypotheses. A hypothesis is known to require validation and confirmation

NASA provided information that very soon -. March 5, our planet will approach within a short distance huge asteroid TX68

<. p> However, experts assure that the particular danger that the asteroid will collide with Earth, does not exist. The trajectory of the path of the object space that is determined accurately. Scientists report that the asteroid will pass at a safe distance from our planet.

According to the information provided after calculating the trajectory of the asteroid’s route, the distance between the Earth and the celestial body will be reduced to 14 million km. This means that the distance will be more than thirty-five times, than that between the Earth and the Moon. But the scale of the cosmos, this distance is insignificant. But the asteroid is still a risk of collision exists.

On that day, when the asteroid will approach to the closest distance to the Earth, its brightness will increase many times over. Astronomers at this moment will be appropriate to conduct surveillance. According to some reports the diameter of a celestial object around thirty meters. And this is far more than an asteroid that landed in Chelyabinsk more than two years ago.

The first time that a huge asteroid spotted back in 2013. Experts believe that after closer celestial object again goes to the side of our light, but then again closer to our planet already in 2017.