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367943 Duende (provisional designation 2012 DA 14) is a micro-asteroid and a near-Earth object of the Aten and Atira group, approximately 30 meters (98 ft) in diameter.It was discovered by astronomers of the Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca at its robotic La Sagra Observatory in 2012, and named for the duende, a goblin-like creature from Iberian and Filipino mythology and folklore. [1]
A list of known near-Earth asteroid close approaches less than 1 lunar distance (384,400 km or 0.00257 AU) from Earth in 2012. [note 1] Rows highlighted red indicate objects which were not discovered until after closest approach. Rows highlighted yellow indicate objects discovered less than 24 hours before closest approach.
2012 XE133 has been identified as a Venus co-orbital following a transitional path between Venus's Lagrangian points L 5 point and L 3 point. [4] Besides being a Venus co-orbital, this asteroid is also a Mercury grazer and an Earth crosser. 2012 XE133 exhibits resonant (or near-resonant) behavior with Mercury, Venus and the Earth. [4]
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.
Comparison of the former orbit of the Chelyabinsk meteor (larger elliptical blue orbit) and asteroid 2012 DA 14 (smaller circular blue orbit), showing that they are dissimilar. Preliminary calculations rapidly showed that the object was unrelated to the long-predicted close approach of the asteroid 367943 Duende , that flew by Earth 16 hours ...
2012 TV. 2012 TV is a near-Earth Apollo asteroid with an estimated diameter of 30 metres (98 ft). [2] Its closest approach to the Earth was on October 7, 2012, with a distance of 0.0017 astronomical units (250,000 km; 160,000 mi ). [3] It also approached the Moon an hour earlier with a distance of 0.0028 astronomical units (420,000 km; 260,000 ...
An asteroid that’s somewhere between 30 and 100 feet long is hurtling through space in the direction of Earth at 30,000 miles per hour. Asteroid 2012 TC4 is going to fly by Earth on October 12 ...
99942 Apophis (provisional designation 2004 MN4) is a near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous object with a diameter of 370 metres (1,210 feet) [ 3 ] that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 when initial observations indicated a probability up to 2.7% that it would hit Earth on April 13, 2029.