Asteroid 2016 RB1 was only at a distance of 40,000 km from our planet.
Medium-sized asteroid 2016 RB1 approached the Earth at a distance 10 times less than from earth to the moon.
At a time when the majority of observatories watched the asteroid of medium size 2016 QL44 held at a considerable distance from our planet, passing a small asteroid, barely missing the Ground.
Asteroid 2016 RB1 was only at a distance of 40,000 kilometers from the planet, according to NASA.
Scientists believe that in the next fifty years closer than this asteroid, the Earth is not close, none of the celestial bodies. space standards, 2016 RB1 went with our planet almost came, at a distance of 0.0002 astronomical unit. This is ten times closer than the Moon.
The size of the asteroid is small — seven to sixteen meters in diameter. However, when you clash in the Land of its explosion would be approximately equal to the explosion of the Chelyabinsk meteorite that fell in 2013.
Opened RB1 2016 5 September 2016 with an optical telescope with a diameter of 150 centimeters in the Observatory Catalina Sky Survey, located in the mountains of Arizona, USA.
It is included in the NASA NEO program dedicated to locating celestial bodies, which can cross the orbit of the Earth. Asteroids — one of the greatest dangers which can be subjected to our planet.
