Splebly » Asteroids http://www.splebly.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:34:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Surprise! Unknown Asteroid Buzzed Earth http://www.splebly.com/surprise-unknown-asteroid-buzzed-earth http://www.splebly.com/surprise-unknown-asteroid-buzzed-earth#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:04:18 +0000 Carrie-Anne tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/9f40e61f29437fce Trajectory of Asteroid 2009 VA Past Earth on November 6, 2009. Credit: NASA/JPL
A previously undiscovered asteroid came within 14,000 km of Earth last week, and astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before closest approach. On Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST a 7 meter asteroid, now called 2009 VA, came only about 2 Earth radii from impacting our home planet. This is the third-closest known non-impacting Earth approach on record for a cataloged asteroid.
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