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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 mythology and folklore. [1]
The discovery was made using the 0.4-meter (16 in) reflector of the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) near Kislovodsk, Russia. [1] Data processing was carried out by automated asteroid-discovery program CoLiTec. [7] Precovery images by the Mount Lemmon Survey from 28 December 2011 and by Pan-STARRS from 28 January 2012 were ...
The asteroid remained too faint to be recovered with automated astronomical surveys until early September, [20] but a more targeted observation with the Very Large Telescope recovered it on 27 July 2017 at apparent magnitude 26.8, while the asteroid was 0.4 AU (60,000,000 km; 37,000,000 mi) from Earth, making it one of the dimmest asteroid ...
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 ...
This is a list of asteroids that have impacted Earth after discovery and orbit calculation that predicted the impact in advance. As of December 2024, all of the asteroids with predicted impacts were under 5 m (16 ft) in size that were discovered just hours before impact, and burned up in the atmosphere as meteors.
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.
Discovery date Description 2006 JY 26: May 6, 2006 Nearly missed the Moon and the Earth on May 9–10, 2006, and may impact the Earth on May 3, 2073. [5] 2007 WD 5: November 20, 2007 Nearly missed Mars on January 9, 2008 [6] [7] 2008 TC 3: October 6, 2008 Struck Earth on October 7, 2008 [8] 2012 XE 133: December 12, 2012 Currently a temporary ...
The Virtual Telescope Project will host a free live stream of the comet on its website and YouTube channel starting at 9 p.m. Mountain time/ 8 p.m. Pacific time.