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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.
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.
The first asteroid flyby within 1 LD of Earth in 2022 was asteroid 2021 YK (10–20 meters in diameter), which was observed on 27 December 2021 04:40 UT (when it was about 3.8 million km from Earth) and passed 0.49 LD (190 thousand km) from Earth on 2 January 2022. The largest asteroid to pass within 1 LD of Earth in 2022 was 2022 TM 2 with an ...
A meteor that exploded in a spectacular fireball over Niagara Falls in 2022 was the smallest asteroid ever measured, a new study has found.. The asteroid, spotted by astronomers just hours before ...
Asteroid designation Date of impact Location of impact Method of detection Estimated size Reference 2008 TC 3: October 7, 2008: Nubian Desert in Sudan: visual, weather satellite, meteorite recovery: 4 m (13 ft) [1] 2014 AA: January 2, 2014: Central Atlantic Ocean: infrasound: 2–4 m (6.6–13.1 ft) [2] 2018 LA: June 2, 2018: Botswana/South ...
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 ...
2022 OB 5 is a small near-Earth asteroid that passed within 0.00679 AU (1,016,000 km) from Earth on 5 August 2022. [2] It is the primary target of AstroForge 's Brokkr-2 (Odin) mission, which is planned for launch alongside IM-2 by February 2025, reaching the asteroid around December 2025. [ 3 ]
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 ...