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The largest asteroid to pass within 1 LD of Earth in 2020 was 2020 LD with an estimated diameter of around 145 meters and an absolute magnitude of 22.4. The fastest asteroid to pass within 1 LD of Earth in 2020 was 2020 FD 2 that passed Earth with a velocity with respect to Earth of 33.4 km/s (75,000 mph). [2] [note 3]
An example list of near-Earth asteroids that passed more than 1 lunar distance (384,400 km or 0.00256 AU) from Earth in 2008. 2007 TU 24 (~250 meters in diameter) passed 1.44 LD (554,000 km) from Earth on January 29, 2008. 2008 CE 22 (~18 meters in diameter) passed between 0.9997 and 1.0023 LD (384,300 to 385,300 km) from Earth on February 6, 2008.
Trajectory of 2004 FH in the Earth–Moon system Goldstone radar images of asteroid 2007 PA 8 's Earth flyby in 2012. This is a list of examples where an asteroid or meteoroid travels close to the Earth. Some are regarded as potentially hazardous objects if they are estimated to be large enough to cause regional devastation.
On Sunday, another asteroid about half the size of 2008 OS7 will pass within 4.5 million miles of Earth. The closest recorded asteroid flyby happened in August of 2020, when a space rock roughly ...
NASA has identified multiple asteroids expected to pass near Earth in the next two days, including one that is the size of a football stadium. NASA reports 'potentially hazardous' stadium-size ...
An asteroid between 820 and 1,870 feet in diameter will cruise past us on Saturday, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. ... 2020 at 8:20 AM ... NASA’s Center for Earth Object ...
List of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2020; ... List of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2024; J. List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp)
2020 BX 12 was discovered on 27 January 2020 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.The ATLAS survey was designed for detecting near-Earth asteroids on approach to Earth, particularly those that may be considered potentially hazardous under circumstances where they can approach Earth from close distances.