Large Asteroid 2000 QW7 to pass Earth
On Saturday 14 September, 2019 a large asteroid (designated asteroid 467317 2000 QW7) will pass the Earth at a safe distance of 3.5 million miles […]
Asteroids
‘Tunguska’ Size Asteroid Buzzes Earth
An asteroid comparable to the to the asteroid that exploded in the Tunguska region of Siberia in 1908 buzzed past the Earth on Sunday 15, […]
Asteroid 2018 CB Earth Flyby
Asteroid 2018 CB was discovered on February 4th by the Catalina Sky Survey at visual magnitude 19. This week has been a busy one with regard to […]
Newly discovered asteroid passes Earth
Asteroid 2018 BD was only discovered on 18 Jan, 2018 by the Catalina Sky Survey and slipped past the Earth at 0.2 times the distance […]
Asteroid 2012 TC4 – Watch it Live
2012 TC4 is an asteroid measuring 20 meters in diameter earmarked to whiz past the Earth on Thursday, 12 October 2017 at an exceptionally close […]
Asteroid 2012 TC4 – A Close Encounter
2012 TC4 is an asteroid measuring 20 meters in diameter. The house sized space rock was discovered on October 4, 2012 by the Pan-STARRS observatory […]
Asteroid 3122 Florence Earth Flyby
Potentially hazardous asteroid 3122 (1981 ET 3) Florence (named after Florence Nightingale) was discovered back in March 1981 by American astronomer Schelte Bus at the […]
650m Asteroid 2014 JO25 close approach to Earth
Discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey as part of NASA’s NEO (Near Earth Object) observations program back in May 2014, asteroid 2014 JO25 measures 650 meters […]
Asteroid 2017 BS32 Earth flyby
First we had asteroid 2017 AG13 on 9th January, then there was asteroid 2017 BX a few weeks later. The third instalment was smaller asteroid […]
Asteroid 2017 BH30 Earth Flyby
At 04:51 GMT today, asteroid 2017 BH30 is yet another newly discovered object that flew past the Earth at a close distance. Discovered by the Catalina Sky […]