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Toutatis is also a Mars-crosser asteroid with a chaotic orbit produced by a 3:1 resonance with the planet Jupiter, a 1:4 resonance with the planet Earth, and frequent close approaches to the terrestrial planets, including Earth. [12] In December 2012, Toutatis passed within about 18 lunar distances of Earth.
Clementine 2 was a proposed asteroid-interception mission that was intended to fly by two near-Earth asteroids, 433 Eros and 4179 Toutatis planned by NASA. [2]The probe impact at Toutatis was needed to obtain the dynamic strength of surface material and data on the properties of the regolith and on stratification below the surface, and potentially allowed the measurement of thermal diffusivity ...
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
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 TC 4 is a tumbling micro-asteroid classified as a bright near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 10 meters (30 feet) in diameter. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It was first observed by Pan-STARRS at Haleakala Observatory on the Hawaiian island of Maui , in the United States.
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]
First asteroid known to have more than one moon (determined in 2005) 90 Antiope: 80×80: October 1, 1866: Double asteroid with two nearly equal components; its double nature was discovered using adaptive optics in 2000 92 Undina: 126: 1867 July 7: Created in one of the largest asteroid-on-asteroid collisions of the past 100 million years 216 ...
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 ...