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Animation: How Asteroid 2012 DA14′s Close Pass of Earth Will Play Out
If you haven’t heard yet, this Friday, February 15, 2013 will be a close flyby of an asteroid named 2012 DA14. It’s turning out to be a highly anticipated close flyby of an asteroid, as it will pass just 27,630 kilometers (17,168 miles) from the surface of the Earth, well within the range of many Earth-orbiting satellites. If you could watch the action from the vantage point of space, what would this flyby look like? Analytical Graphics, Inc., a company that creates modeling and analysis software for space, defense and other areas, has put together an animation which includes the asteroid’s trajectory as it approaches Earth, a closeup of the asteroid during its closest approach, a highlighted portion of Earth orbit that it is expected to pass through, and other interesting data.
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If it is passing that close to Earth, won’t Earth’s gravitational pull perturb the asteriod’s path?
Don’t the asteroid and earth hit each other in this sim at 1:24