Friday, January 27, 2012

2012 BX34

There’s an asteroid passing by Earth today, right about now I suppose. It’s the closest approach of a near-miss asteroid ever recorded, it will pass us at about 1/5 the distance to the moon, or within 50,000 miles.

 

This is a small one, about the size of a bus, so tiny it was only detected on Wednesday.

 

No chance it will hit the Earth, but nice to know I guess.

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