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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.
The nominal Earth approach was 14 January 2024 and would have had the asteroid only brightening to apparent magnitude 26 which would have made it too faint for automated surveys to detect. [6] [7] With a Palermo scale rating of -4.41, [2] the odds of impact were 26 000 times less than the background hazard level for an asteroid of this size.
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.
A team of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) (Pasadena, California) scientists led by Marina Brozovic and Lance Benner, made the discovery using radar imaging at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar on June 12 and June 14, 2009. They showed that the near-Earth asteroid 1994 CC is a triple system, which encountered Earth within 2.52 million ...
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.
An asteroid that crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere over the UK and France was spotted just hours before it crashed. The world was given only seven hours warning that it was being approached by ...
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).
An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last month, the European Space Agency revealed in its latest newsletter. The asteroid, called 2024 UQ, was first ...