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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.
Toutatis imaged by Chang'e 2 during its flyby. According to Ouyang Ziyuan's report to the 16th Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chang'e 2 departed from L2 on 15 April 2012, and began a mission to the asteroid 4179 Toutatis. [33] The flyby was successfully achieved on 13 December 2012 at 16:30:09 Beijing Time (08:30:09 GMT). [34]
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.
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 ...
4179 Toutatis asteroid captured by Chang'e 2 On December 13, 2012, the Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 2 made a flyby of the asteroid 4179 Toutatis in an extended mission. [ 8 ] With a distance of over 7 million kilometers away from Earth, Chang'e 2 became China's first interplanetary probe which tested the limit of China's deep space communication ...
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
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 ...
Disasters and accidents A tour bus hits a bridge at Miami International Airport, United States, killing at least two people and injuring many more. (NBC News) (BBC) (The Miami Herald) [permanent dead link ] At least 8 people are killed and 36 injured when a passenger bus overturns on the highway between the cities of Sucre and Potosí in southern Bolivia. (RIA Novosti) International ...