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Newly Found Asteroid 2014 DH6 Very Close Encounter With Earth (Video)
Sunday, February 23, 2014 13:05
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Breaking News: Newly Found Asteroid 2014 DH6 Very Close Encounter With Earth
February 23 2014
The fact that these massive asteroids are only being discovered within hours of near-Earth collision is getting very disturbing.
Just a few hours ago, the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of a 30-meters large near-Earth asteroid, 2014 DH6. Then just a few hours later, it’s reported that due to its orbit, this rock was going to have a very close encounter with the Earth on 23 Feb. Ummm… that’s TODAY.
Near-Earth asteroid 2014 DH6:will pass within .0052 AU of earth and, .0037 AU of our moon today. We have been lucky so far but finding these at the last minute is getting concerning.
Are you prepared?
Space weather website says it’s 2LD. (Lunar distance). That’s hardly a “close encounter” with earth. Just saying…
.0052 AU is around 480k miles or 778 kilometers. Not very close, not very threatening, but worth keeping an eye on.
No it isn’t very close – in Earth terms.
In terms of space distance it equates to about as far as you can spit.
But it is happening more frequently as is only natural in this part of space.
Earth is now flying thru a busy place creating a greater chance of being hit by a big rock.
You can’t escape logic.
Go get some coffee.