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2. 2012 KT42 - Wikipedia

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   The asteroid had a close approach to the Earth on 29 May 2012, approaching to only ~8950 miles (~14,440 km) above the planet's surface. This means 2012 KT 42 came inside the Clarke Belt of geosynchronous satellites. In May 2012, the estimated 5- to 10-metre-wide asteroid ranked #6 on the top 20 list of closest-approaches to Earth.

3. List of Earth flybys - Wikipedia

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   flyby 11,000 km success gravity assist en route to Mars [8] Nozomi (third pass) ISAS: 19 June 2003 flyby 1000 km success gravity assist en route to Mars [8] Hayabusa: ISAS: 19 May 2004 flyby 20,000 km success en route to Itokawa [11] Rosetta (first pass) ESA: 4 March 2005 flyby 1950 km success gravity assist en route to asteroid and comet ...

4. 367943 Duende - Wikipedia

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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]

5. Asteroid 2012 TC4 is going to fly by Earth on October 12 ...

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   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 ...

6. Flyby (spaceflight) - Wikipedia

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   Imagery collected by Voyager 2 of Ganymede during its flyby of the Jovian system Galileo spacecraft encounters asteroid 243 Ida. A flyby (/ ˈ f l aɪ b aɪ /) is a spaceflight operation in which a spacecraft passes in proximity to another body, usually a target of its space exploration mission and/or a source of a gravity assist (also called swing-by) to impel it towards another target. [1]

7. ‘Puzzling’ discovery spotted in new images from NASA mission ...

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   Lucy swung by the space rock, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, on November 1 as part of a test of the spacecraft’s equipment before tackling the mission’s primary ...

8. 2012 EG5 - Wikipedia

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   2012 EG5 is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid with an estimated diameter of 47 meters (154 ft). [3] The asteroid was discovered on March 13, 2012. The asteroid came within 0.001539 AU (230,200 km ; 143,100 mi ) of Earth during its closest approach on April 1, 2012, [ 2 ] just over half the distance between Earth and the Moon's orbit.

9. NASA’s Lucy mission went to visit an asteroid and got more ...

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   In September 2022, NASA’s DART mission intentionally slammed into Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos, to demonstrate the technology needed to alter the trajectory ...