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Chinese space probe flies by asteroid Toutatis (Xinhua 2012-12-15) Surface Features of Asteroid Toutatis Revealed by Radar (YouTube: JPLnews) Goldstone radar images from the 2012 flyby; Toutatis radar information; Space.com: Video of Toutatis's close approach to Earth, 29 Sept, 2004; Interesting views of asteroid; Astrobiology Magazine article ...
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
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]
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 ...
2012 FP 35 is an Apollo asteroid about 11 meters in diameter that makes close approaches to Earth. [2] It orbits the Sun every 583.2 days, in an ellipse between 0.749 AU and 1.983 AU from the Sun. [ 2 ] It was discovered on March 24, 2012 by the Catalina Sky Survey .
The asteroid Toutatis is listed as a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid, yet poses no immediate threat to Earth.(Radar image taken by GDSCC in 1996.)A potentially hazardous object (PHO) is a near-Earth object – either an asteroid or a comet – with an orbit that can make close approaches to the Earth and which is large enough to cause significant regional damage in the event of ...
This is a diffusing subcategory of Category:2012 in outer space. Articles about near-Earth objects in 2012 in the parent category should be moved to this subcategory. Further information: List of asteroid close approaches to Earth
In the moments before NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in a landmark planetary defense test in 2022, it took high-resolution images of this small celestial object and its ...