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William Seger

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Tue Sep 22, 2020, 01:34 PM Sep 2020

RV-size asteroid to get closer to Earth than the moon

https://www.livescience.com/asteroid-2020-closer-to-earth-than-moon.html

An asteroid will get awfully close to Earth this Thursday (Sept. 24), when it whizzes by our planet closer than the moon orbits.

The asteroid — known as 2020 SW — isn't expected to collide with Earth, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. But it will get close, passing about 16,700 miles (27,000 kilometers) away from Earth, according to the Virtual Telescope Project.

To put this in perspective, the moon hangs out at an average of 238,900 miles (384,000 km) from us, or about 30 Earths away. This asteroid will pass at a distance of about 2.1 Earths. This means that asteroid 2020 SW will pass even closer than TV and weather satellites, which orbit at about 22,300 miles (35,888 km) away from Earth, according to EarthSky.


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RV-size asteroid to get closer to Earth than the moon (Original Post) William Seger Sep 2020 OP
Maybe We'll Get Lucky And It Will Hit Us nt sfstaxprep Sep 2020 #1
That would be so 2020 nt intrepidity Sep 2020 #3
I'll be looking for a dog that resembles John Candy. CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #2
RV sized? Meh. Now if it was say 300 mile size then that would be news. cstanleytech Sep 2020 #4
That's not on my 2020 bingo card StatGirl Sep 2020 #5
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