Asteroids that will pass very close

Between June 27 and 29 we will have six asteroids that will pass within a radius of less than 7 million kilometers, so to speak, a safety zone, if an asteroid of considerable size of more than 150 meters enters within that radius may begin to be classified as a potentially dangerous asteroid, even if it only does so once in its entire life. Between June 27 and 29 we are going to have six asteroids that will enter within that radius, but two are special news and one of them is very disturbing and very serious news, on the one hand we have the potentially dangerous asteroid 2011 UL-21 which is one of the large ones, this is a large asteroid, one can almost speak of a giant asteroid, it is almost 3.9 km in diameter, in reality it must have an elongated shape because the calculation is that it is between 1.7 to 3.9 km in diameter, but we are talking about the size of a mountain. This year is the biggest of the year, it also travels quite fast at about 93,000 km per hour, this flying mountain will pass tomorrow, June 27, at the very safe distance of 6.6 million kilometers, but the media takes advantage of these things and has set up Here is a circus that should not be given importance, but what is important is that it will happen close enough to us to get more information.

But the second piece of news is important, it is another asteroid, but smaller, it is called 2024-MK, as you can imagine when it is called 2024, it has been discovered this year, it was discovered only 10 days ago on June 16. And Although it is small, it is between 120 and 260 meters in size. It is not the end of the world, not even a continental disaster, but it is large enough to incinerate an entire large city, because what is also disturbing about this asteroid is which has not only been recently discovered, but will pass on June 29 between the Earth and the Moon about 290,000 km from us. There is no risk that 2024 MK whose trajectory is this will impact the Earth at least in the next 10 years, although more calculations still need to be made about its trajectory, in the longer term the more data we can obtain. It would be necessary to see where this asteroid is going to go, as I usually say, the large asteroids, those measured in kilometers, are practically all controlled, but there are still many small and medium-sized ones like this one, which have not yet been discovered, so it would be necessary to have a planetary defense system. Imagine that this asteroid discovered on June 16, they calculate that it really does come on an impact path with the Earth and although it is not of a size to cause a mass extinction, it can cause a lot of damage and we have technology to destroy or divert it, but we would have just a few days to send an interception mission, so I think we should develop that technology and have at least one defense system always permanent in orbit.