Monday, 4 February 2013

Asteroid heads towards closest-ever predicted flyby of Earth

Artist's imagery shows an asteroid (this one with a moon) making a very close pass of the Earth

Excitement is growing over the approach of an asteroid that will make the closest ever flyby of Earth to have been predicted well in advance later this month.


The chunk of space rock, about 50 metres wide, will give us such a near miss that it will skim our planet inside the geosynchronous orbits of many TV and communications satellites on 15 February.


By: Paul Sutherland, Sen.com, Edited by: Ian Steadman


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/04/asteroid-close-pass-earth

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