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Subj: Small Asteroid Buzzes Earth
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From: SpaceWeather com
Date: 03/18/09 09:40:23
To: SpaceWeather com
Subject: Small Asteroid Buzzes Earth Tonight
Space Weather News for March 17, 2009
http://spaceweather.com
ASTEROID BUZZES EARTH: Newly-discovered asteroid 2009 FH is flying past
Earth tonight only 85,000 km (0.00057 AU) away. That's a little more than
twice the height of a geosynchronous communications satellite. Experienced
amateur astronomers in North America can photograph the 20-meter-wide space
rock racing through the constellation Gemini after sunset on March 17th. It
should be about as bright as a 14th magnitude star. Please visit
http://spaceweather.com for an ephemeris and updates.
This is the second time in March that an asteroid has flown so close to
Earth. On March 2nd, 2009 DD45 passed by only 72,000 km away. Measuring
some tens of meters in diameter, 2009 DD45 and 2009 FH are approximately
Tunguska-class objects, meaning they pose no global threat but could cause
local damage if they actually hit Earth. In years past, asteroids of this
size often passed unnoticed, but recent improvements in asteroid surveys
have resulted in growing numbers of space rocks caught in the act of
near-Earth flybys.
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