{"id":130150,"date":"2022-01-20T12:46:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=130150"},"modified":"2022-01-20T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:46:53","slug":"asteroid-1994-pc1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/asteroid-1994-pc1\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid 1994 PC1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: What is another name of the Asteroid 1994 PC1, which flied past the Earth on January?<\/strong><br>a) Asteroid 7482<br>b) Asteroid 8482<br>c) Asteroid 7492<br>d) None of these<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 18 January 2022; a huge asteroid bigger than the size of Burj Khalifa is set to flied past Earth at a distance of 1,230,000-mile.<\/li><li>The asteroid 7482, also known as 1994 PC1, is about 1.6 km in length i.e. much greater in size compared to Burj Khalifa, which is just 829.8 m.<\/li><li>The asteroid 1994 PC1 has been categorised by US space agency NASA as a potentially hazardous object due to its relative proximity to the Earth while shooting past.<\/li><li>It should be noted that NASA identifies asteroids as potentially hazardous if the asteroids follow these criteria-<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i. More than about 140 meters in size and have-<br>ii. Orbits that bring them as close as within 4.6 million miles of Earth\u2019s orbit around the Sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The asteroid travels at a speed of 45,000 miles per hour. It&#8217;s a rocky asteroid.<\/li><li>It orbits the sun at a distance of 0.9 to 1.8 AU. It follows an elliptic orbit.<\/li><li>The asteroid&#8217;s rotation period is 2.599 hours per light curve analysis.<\/li><li>The light curve tracks the intensity of light emitted by a celestial body.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/asteroid-twice-the-size-of-burj-khalifa-fly-past-earth-on-january-18-101642465214654.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/asteroid-twice-the-size-of-burj-khalifa-fly-past-earth-on-january-18-101642465214654.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What is another name of the Asteroid 1994 PC1, which flied past the Earth on January?a) Asteroid 7482b) Asteroid 8482c) Asteroid 7492d) None of theseAnswer: (a)Related Facts:- On 18 January 2022; a huge asteroid bigger than the size of Burj Khalifa is set to flied past Earth at a distance of 1,230,000-mile. The asteroid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":130151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-130150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130152,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130150\/revisions\/130152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}