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91E-103-Small Asteroids In Earth-like Orbits

91E-103-Small Asteroids In Earth-like Orbits

FromTravelers In The Night


91E-103-Small Asteroids In Earth-like Orbits

FromTravelers In The Night

ratings:
Length:
2 minutes
Released:
Aug 25, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Four days after it made its closest approach to Earth, I found a 10 foot diameter asteroid with the NASA funded University of Arizona 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon. At that point it was 838,000 miles from us and was moving away at about 3 miles/second. Previously, It had been about half the distance to the Moon from planet Earth. This small asteroid orbits the Sun every 349 days on a path which crosses our orbit twice a year. Calculations by the NASA - JPL group indicate that it can come within 2 Earth diameters of us.
Released:
Aug 25, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Space, Asteroid Hunting, and Astronomy, an insider view.The music is "Eternity" by John Lyell.Astronomy Asteroids Space NASA Comets Earth Impact