{"id":3190,"date":"2023-02-11T09:12:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T03:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:22:53","slug":"what-is-199145-2005-yy128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-199145-2005-yy128\/","title":{"rendered":"What is 199145 (2005 YY128)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About 199145 (2005 YY128):<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>199145 (2005 YY128) is <strong>an asteroid whose orbit crosses the orbit of Earth<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>orbits the sun every 774 days (2.12 years<\/strong>) in an <strong>elliptical orbit.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>2005 YY128 is probably between <strong>0.566 to 1.265 kilometers in diameter.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its orbit is 0<strong>.03 astronomical unit from Earth&#8217;s orbit<\/strong> at its closest point.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is an Asteroid?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Asteroids are <strong>small, rocky objects that orbit the sun.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Although asteroids orbit the sun like planets, <strong>they are much smaller than planets.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Most of them <strong>live in the main asteroid belt\u2014a region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is an astronomical unit (AU)?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>An Astronomical Unit (AU) is the <strong>average distance between Earth and the Sun, which is about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Astronomical units are usually <strong>used to measure distances within our Solar System.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What happens if an asteroid hits earth?<\/h3>\n<p>If the asteroid impacts a land mass, in addition to a huge shock wave, massive amounts of particles would be released into the atmosphere, causing serious environmental damage on a global scale and mass extinctions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/new-updates\/giant-asteroid-to-hit-earths-atmosphere-find-out-when-will-it-happen\/articleshow\/97797292.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Giant Asteroid to hit Earth&#8217;s Atmosphere; Find out when will It happen\u00a0<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>199145 (2005 YY128) is an asteroid whose orbit crosses the orbit of Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}