Assertion: hazardous asteroid | /r/HasProperty | pha
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text: Phaethon is categorized as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA), but that does not mean there is a near-term threat of an impact.
text: An asteroid for which there is some possibility of a collision with Earth at a future date and which is above a certain size is classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA).
text: To be considered a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA), an object's orbit must, at some point, come within 0.05 AU of Earth's orbit, and the object itself must be sufficiently large/massive to cause significant regional damage if it impacted Earth.
text: An asteroid for which there is some possibility of a collision with Earth at a future date and which is above a certain size is classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA).
text: Nevertheless, it has been classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) by the Minor Planet Centre in Cambridg e, Massachusetts
text: Nevertheless, it has been classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) by the Minor Planet Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, because of the proximity of its orbit to Earth and its estimated size.
text: To be considered a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA), an object's orbit must, at some point, come within 0.05 AU of Earth's orbit, and the object itself must be sufficiently large/massive to cause significant regional damage if it impacted Earth.
text: BR January 20, 1997 first potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) discovered by SCAP 29552 Chern 1998 CS2
text: Most of these objects are potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs), and a few are comets.
text: Most potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are either Aten asteroids or Apollo asteroids, and therefore cross the orbit of Earth.
text: Five of the asteroids it discovered were NEAs, two of which were considered potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs).