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(458732) 2011 MD 5 is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid around 1.2 kilometers (0.75 miles) in diameter. It is the largest asteroid known to have passed closer than the Moon. [4] On 17 September 1918 the asteroid passed 0.00234 AU (350 thousand km; 0.91 LD) from Earth [3] with a peak apparent magnitude of around 8.4.
Trajectory of asteroid 2005 YU 55 compared with the orbits of Earth and the Moon on 8–9 November 2011. Apparent trajectory on 8–9 November 2011. In February 2010, (308635) 2005 YU 55 was rated 1 on the Torino Scale for a potential pass near Earth on 10 November 2103, [12] that posed no unusual level of danger.
(436724) 2011 UW 158, provisionally known as 2011 UW 158, is a stony, walnut-shaped asteroid and fast rotator, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, approximately 300 meters in diameter.
On November 8, 2011, asteroid (308635) 2005 YU 55, relatively large at about 400 m (1,300 ft) in diameter, passed within 324,930 km (201,900 mi) (0.845 lunar distances) of Earth. [ 49 ] On February 15, 2013, the 30 m (98 ft) asteroid 367943 Duende ( 2012 DA 14 ) passed approximately 27,700 km (17,200 mi) above the surface of Earth, closer than ...
A list of known near-Earth asteroid close approaches less than 1 lunar distance (384,400 km or 0.00257 AU) from Earth in 2011. [note 1] Rows highlighted red indicate objects which were not discovered until after closest approach
A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth.The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...
The small asteroid, measuring about a metre across, did not pose a threat to life. It was the third space rock detected imminently before impacting the Earth this year, but only the tenth on record.
Disasters Flooding in Thailand reaches the residence of the Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in Bangkok, forcing her to withdraw from the Hawaii APEC summit to deal with the crisis. (Bangkok Post) (Reuters) At least 16 people are killed in a stampede during a religious festival in the Indian city of Haridwar, Uttarakhand. (CNN) A British Red Arrows pilot dies after being accidentally ejected ...