Approaching the asteroid Toutatis

(ANSAmed) – Rome, DEC-10 approaching the encounter with the asteroid Toutatis, which met from 11 to 12 December ‘ the Earth with a passage that will take place at a distance of confidence: a 6.9 million km from Earth. “There is no danger of impact with our planet,” said astrophysicist Gianluca Masi, scientific curator of the Planetarium of Rome and head of the Virtual Telescope. The object, whose name derives from the Celtic Dios Tutatis, will be at a minimum distance from Earth on December 12. All rights reserved