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Disasters Flooding in Thailand reaches the residence of the Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in Bangkok, forcing her to withdraw from the Hawaii APEC summit to deal with the crisis. (Bangkok Post) (Reuters) At least 16 people are killed in a stampede during a religious festival in the Indian city of Haridwar, Uttarakhand. (CNN) A British Red Arrows pilot dies after being accidentally ejected ...
Trajectory of asteroid 2005 YU 55 compared with the orbits of Earth and the Moon on 8–9 November 2011. Apparent trajectory on 8–9 November 2011. In February 2010, (308635) 2005 YU 55 was rated 1 on the Torino Scale for a potential pass near Earth on 10 November 2103, [12] that posed no unusual level of danger.
(367789) 2011 AG 5, provisional designation 2011 AG 5, is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. [1] It has a diameter of about 140 meters (460 ft). [ 4 ]
The asteroid has an Earth minimum orbit intersection distance of 0.0020 AU (300,000 km), which corresponds to 0.8 lunar distances (LD). On 19 July 2015, it passed about 2.5 million kilometers from Earth (6.5 LD), [ 1 ] attracting the interest of astronomers. [ 1 ]
On November 8, 2011, asteroid (308635) 2005 YU 55, relatively large at about 400 m (1,300 ft) in diameter, passed within 324,930 km (201,900 mi) (0.845 lunar distances) of Earth. [49] On February 15, 2013, the 30 m (98 ft) asteroid 367943 Duende ( 2012 DA 14 ) passed approximately 27,700 km (17,200 mi) above the surface of Earth, closer than ...
An asteroid streaked past northern Siberia in the middle of the night Tuesday before burning up in Earth's atmosphere, lighting up the skies with a blinding flash, dramatic video shows.
On Thursday, meanwhile, asteroid 2011… Near miss, in this case, is a relative term: Saturday’s asteroid, 2024 MK, will come within 180,000 miles of Earth. Stadium-sized asteroid to buzz by ...
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 ...