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Near-Earth Asteroid Set to Pass Within Earth-Moon System
Near-Earth Asteroid set to Pass Within Earth-Moon System. Asteroid 2016 VB1 was first observed by Mt. Lemmon Survey on 2016-11-05. It will fly by Earth harmlessly on 2016-11-07 at 19 56 UTC at 0.7 times the distance to the Moon, at a speed (relative to the Earth) of 5.4 km/s. It is estimated to be 4 – 12 meters in size.
Asteroid 2002 UQ12 was first observed by Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico on 2002-10-30. It will fly by Earth harmlessly on 2016-11-07 at 06 00 UTC at 19.4 times the distance to the Moon, at a speed (relative to the Earth) of 20.2 km/s. It is estimated to be 65 – 206 meters in size.
7 CLOSE APPROACHES NOVEMBER 7. 2016 VB1 2016-Nov-07 0.7 LD 5.5 m – 12 m. 2016 VS 2016-Nov-07 2.7 LD 7.9 m – 18 m. 2002 UQ12 2016-Nov-07 19.4 88 m – 200 m. 2016 UZ40 2016-Nov-07 25.5 LD 58 m – 130 m. 2004 JP1 2016-Nov-07 51.9 LD 73 m – 160 m. 2000 EJ26 2016-Nov-07 71.5 LD 350 m – 780 m. 2016 QH44 2016-Nov-07 40.7 LD 88 m – 200 m
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Sources:
GETTY, ESO, ESA/HUBBLE & NASA
http://minorplanetcenter.net/db_searc…
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr…
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr…
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
