10 November 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- Asteroid 2009 VA Whizzes By The Earth 6NOV09 10NOV09

Small Asteroid 2009 VA Whizzes By The Earth
Don Yeomans, Paul Chodas, Steve Chesley
NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office
November 9, 2009

Trajectory of Asteroid 2009 VA Past Earth on November 6, 2009
Trajectory of Asteroid 2009 VA Past Earth on November 6, 2009

A newly discovered asteroid designated 2009 VA, which is only about 7
meters in size, passed about 2 Earth radii (14,000 km) from the Earth's
surface Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST. This is the third-closest known
(non-impacting) Earth approach on record for a cataloged asteroid. ...
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news166.html

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