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(410777) 2009 FD is a carbonaceous sub-kilometer asteroid and binary system, [6] [3] classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, discovered on 24 February 2009 by astronomers of the Spacewatch program at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, in the United States. [2]
The power of such an air burst would be somewhere between the Chelyabinsk meteor and the Tunguska event depending on the actual size of the asteroid. The nominal orbit shows that on 16 September 2014 the asteroid could have passed just inside one lunar distance from Earth, [ 4 ] but the orbital uncertainties show that it could have passed as ...
Because 2009 BD is a very small multi-opposition near-Earth object, the effect of radiation pressure on the orbit caused by light from the Sun was able to be detected. [4] The radiation-related acceleration allowed the Area to Mass Ratio (AMR) to be estimated at (2.97 ± 0.33) × 10 −4 m 2 /kg.
It was the most powerful asteroid strike in more than 100 years, and left around 1,500 people injured as well as causing significant damage to buildings and blowing out windows. Show comments ...
2009 RY 3 (~41 meters in diameter) passed 1.94 Lunar distances (745,000 km) from Earth on 11 September 2009. 2009 SH 1 (~5 meters in diameter) may have passed as close as 1.01 Lunar distances (390,000 km) from Earth on 14 September 2009, but the nominal orbit suggests an approach nearer to 2.40 LD (922,000 km).
A small asteroid will be pulled into orbit around the Earth as a “mini-moon” later this month before the space rock departs into other parts of the solar system.. The 10m-wide asteroid, dubbed ...
Nasa has issued an alert for a stadium-sized asteroid set to make a close approach to Earth on Tuesday.. The 2024 ON asteroid measures 290 metres (950 feet) across and will come within 1 million ...
2009 DD 45 is a very small Apollo asteroid that passed near Earth at an altitude of 63,500 km (39,500 mi) on 2 March 2009 at 13:44 UTC.It was discovered by Australian astronomers with the Siding Spring Survey at the Siding Spring Observatory on 27 February 2009, only three days before its closest approach to the Earth.