Pump the Brakes! In a One Two Punch Two Asteroids Buzz Earth Extremely Close! (Video)
January 30 2017
Too close for comfort!
Two Asteroids Buzz Earth in a One Two Punch – They will Pass Extremely near our Planet, at 0.1 and 1.0 LD.
Asteroid 2017 BH30 is Set to Pass extremely close to Earth Jan. 30. The space rock was first observed by Catalina Sky Survey on 2017-01-29. It will fly by Earth on Jan. 30 at 0.1 times the distance to the Moon at a speed (relative to the Earth) of 15.6 km/s. It is estimated to be 4.6 m – 10 meters in size. Condition code of 6.
From Nemesis Maturity
Continued
Another newly discovered asteroid is going to pass close to Earth on Jan. 31.
Asteroid 2017 BJ30 was first observed on Jan. 29 and it will fly by Earth on Jan. 31
at 1.0 times the distance to the moon at a speed (relative to the Earth) of 22,210 km per hour. It is estimated to be 13 – 28 meters in size.
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr…
Some of them are passing undetected.
A small asteroid (7-16 m) made a close approach at 1.1 times the distance to the moon on Jan. 26. 2017 BA7 passed at a speed (relative to the Earth) of 11 km/s.
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr…
Upcoming Close Approaches to Earth
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
NASA sources again? Pure bs, love the phoney photo at top of article, hahaha.
It would seem we are getting better at detecting these. Makes you wonder how many similar asteroids grazed past us undetected in previous years.
0.001 Astronomical Units =
149 597.871 kilometers
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2017+BH30&orb=1
JPL Small-Body Database Browser
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(2017 BH30)
Classification: Apollo [NEO] SPK-ID: 3767158
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