08-18-2020, 10:34 PM
(08-18-2020, 06:14 AM)Ninurta Wrote:(08-18-2020, 05:02 AM)kdog Wrote: I was looking at a data base of incoming near earth objects and just looked up this number to get a relative understanding on how many miles/km it was. Something incoming and I get these pictures instead of numbers.
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2011%20ES4;orb=1
Just thought it was strange. Coming Sept. 2.
Wow. that's going to approach inside the moon's orbit. 58% of the distance to the moon. Put another way, the moon will be 1.72 times farther away.
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We just had one pass within 1830 miles of Earth over the weekend!
Car-sized asteroid passes within 1830 miles of Earth this past weekend- the closest pass ever- and we didn't see it coming
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