3.05.2009

Ha ha, you missed


PASADENA, Calif. – An asteroid about the size of one that blasted Siberia a century ago just buzzed the Earth. The asteroid named 2009 DD45 was about 48,800 miles from Earth when it zipped past early Monday, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported.



That is just twice as high as the orbits of some telecommunications satellites and about a fifth of the distance to the Moon....



Of the known space rocks, the next time an object will get closer to Earth will be in 2029 when an 885-foot asteroid called 99942 Apophis comes within 20,000 miles, said Donald Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

[From Phew! Asteroid's passing was a cosmic near-miss]


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