According to NASA an asteroid will fall within the pull of the earth's gravity from September 29th - November 25th.
The asteroid was first spotted by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on 7 August.
Scientists worked out its trajectory in a study published in Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society.
The asteroid belongs to the Arjuna asteroid belt, which contains rocks that follow an orbit quite similar to Earth’s Occasionally, some of these asteroids get relatively close enough to the Earth, getting as near as 2.8 million miles (4.5 million km) to become part of the Earth's gravitational field .
An asteroid like this moves at a relatively slow speed of around 2,200mph (3,540km/h), so the Earth’s gravitational field can exert a strong influence, and enough to trap it temporarily.
Which exactly what’s about to happen? Starting September 29, this small asteroid will spend about two months orbiting Earth.
Dr Jennifer Millard, astronomer and host of the Awesome Astronomy podcast, told the BBC's Today program that the asteroid would enter orbit on the 29th of September and then was predicted to leave on 25 November.
"It's not going to complete a full revolution of our planet, it's just going to kind of have its orbit altered, just twisted slightly by our own planet and then it'll continue on its merry way," she said.
The asteroid is approximately 32ft (10m) long, which is tiny in comparison to Earth's moon, which has a diameter of approximately 3,474km.
But you might be asking what is the spiritual scientific meaning?In the Esoteric Doctrine about Planets and Moons, the Earth's field of gravity is a Segway of spiritual significance. You may ask why? The earth is surrounded with a sheath of forces which evolves the life of the planet from the plants upwards, and this includes everything upwards as living bodies, and also the vital forces which circulate through the living organisms. All of these considered together form what is called the Life-body of the Earth.
But what is our Moon? When one contemplates our Moon, one is immediately struck with the impression of a planetary body that has been stripped of its life-body! The Moons of other planets are not at like the Earth's Moon, as they the potential for life But the Earth's Moon does not appear that way, in fact it represents to Man a Picture in the Heavens which posses a riddle - it appears as a fossil, albeit as a heavenly fossil. It is unmistakably so, that when one gazes at the Moon it has a Spiritual voice, and one that awakens a vision of Cosmic Life Forces that are Alive with Spirit. However, if one is not be be tormented by the Earth's Moon, one needs to correctly approach this experience by strengthening the Ego through the methods of meditation we teach.
Now regarding the Asteroid from the Arjuna belt of asteroids, what significance does it have? I can recommend this to you, as students on the path of wisdom, that this is fortuitous time for your spiritual research. This asteroid will be drawn closer to the life-forces of the Earth and thus an exchange of vital forces will occur.
The Asteroid itself is only a physical illusion, it is a sign of greater Cosmic forces and Beings. This is the significance which material science cannot see, nor research it enough to speak about it. But students of spiritual science can indeed go further especially when one's soul is prepared by meditation and points its awakened inner eye on the Cosmic activity, it reveals a far more significant meaning than a spinning rock.
In the spiritual eye it will point to a place where cosmic forces can pour down into the earth, and also where poisonous forces can be siphoned away. For the awakened students this is a Michaelic Event,an event involving Cosmic Beings. Spiritual men, with this power can direct these forces while in their strengthened aether bodies, and work alongside the great cosmic beings. This even is not ordinary, but an irregularity, which means the Cosmic Beings have a power to direct new forces into the earth's aetheric life.This comprehension gives students on the path of spiritual knowledge a great bon in that one can give over one's thoughts in meditation to experience the life-power of this new comer into the earth's life-planet.
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