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Risk-listed asteroid 2007 VE 191 (~60 meters in diameter) was not observed when it probably passed roughly 0.5 AU (75,000,000 km; 46,000,000 mi) from Earth on 27 November 2015. 2015 YB initially calculated to make a close approach to Earth on 19 December 2015 turned out to be a much further away inner main-belt asteroid.
The lists below are based on the close approach database of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), in its state as of 27 February 2025. [2] The database lists any approaches with a minimum distance less than 0.2 astronomical units (AU) from 1900 and until a century into the future which have been derived by orbit calculations.
On 7 July 2015, it passed Earth at 0.00295299 AU (442,000 km), or 1.15 lunar distances. On the following day, it passed the Moon at 0.00276 AU (413,000 km). [ 1 ] This was the asteroid's closest approach to Earth until at least 2419.
2015 TB 145 is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, approximately 650 meters (2,000 feet) in diameter. [3] It safely passed 1.27 lunar distances from Earth on 31 October 2015 at 17:01 UTC , [ 7 ] and passed by Earth again in November 2018.
Scientists at NASA collected radar images as two asteroids made recent close passes of Earth, and the data revealed that one of the space rocks has a tiny moon. ... asteroid 2011 UL21, passed by ...
The asteroid came to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) around 28 December 2015. [4] When the asteroid was first detected and it had an observation arc less than 1 day, the asteroid was suspected of being a Near-Earth asteroid that would make a close approach to Earth on 19 December 2015.
Around 5:00 UTC, the asteroid was near M44 (the Beehive Cluster). [14] The 26 January 2015 approach of 3.1 lunar distances was the closest approach of 2004 BL 86 for at least the next 200 years. [11] [15] For comparison, 2015 TB 145, about twice the size of 2004 BL 86, passed 486,800 km (302,500 mi), or 1.3 lunar distances, from Earth on 31 ...
The spacecraft is set to spend a little under a year traveling to an asteroid called 2022 OB5, which next year is expected to travel within about 403,000 miles (649,000 kilometers) of Earth ...