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45 meter Asteroid to Skirt Very Near Earth on Feb 15
Asteroid 2012 DA14 Zooms just 17,200 miles above Earth on Feb. 15, 2013 in this artist’s concept: Credit: NASA/JPL
Our home planet is due for a record setting space encounter on Friday (Feb. 15) of this week, when a space rock roughly half a football field wide skirts very close by Earth at break neck speed and well inside the plethora of hugely expensive communications and weather satellites that ring around us in geosynchronous orbit.
“There is no possibility of an Earth impact” by the Near Earth Asteroid (NEO) known as 2012 DA 14, said Don Yeomans, NASA’s foremost asteroid expert at a media briefing. Well that’s good news for us – but a little late for the dinosaurs.
At its closest approach in less than 4 days, the 45 meter (150 feet) wide Asteroid 2012 DA14 will zoom by within an altitude of(…)
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/99801/45-meter-asteroid-to-skirt-very-near-earth-on-feb-15/
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