Astonished Australians Discover Mysterious Green Object Glowing in the Night Sky The unusual object was spotted across Victoria and South Australia.
A woman from Western Australia named Shaz Hussien was fortunate enough to capture a glowing orb in the sky and shared the strange images on social media.
Image of the glowing object in the Australian sky.
Meanwhile, experts believe that the object recorded could be a asteroid known as 2002 NN4. Astronomers stated that the asteroid 2002 NN4 is approximately 570 meters wide, equivalent to the size of six football fields, and is passing us at a distance of 5.2 million km.
At this distance, NASA believes it poses no threat to our planet. According to NASA, incidents like this are normal, and they are monitoring any near-Earth objects that have passed by or are currently passing us.
Many of these asteroids are quite large. Some are as big as the tallest buildings in the world and pose significant dangers as they pass by. However, they remain millions of kilometers away, although they could potentially pose a threat in the future due to the gravitational pull of our planet that could draw them closer and cause a collision.
NASA and other experts in the field assure us that there is nothing to worry about. They believe that a collision like this would only occur about 200 to 300 years from now.
Even in the worst-case scenario, NASA has a plan to “strike” the asteroid with a spacecraft specifically designed for the mission of protecting Earth from these “potentially hazardous” space rocks. This space mission is known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). In this mission, the spacecraft will crash into the asteroid to redirect it and avoid any potential collisions with Earth.
As of now, the largest asteroid that NASA is monitoring orbits the Sun and is 33 km long.
