4486 Mithra- 12March 2010 Earth Asteroid Approach

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Asteroid 4486 Mithra March 12, 2010 as it passes

Near Earth Asteroids Encounters from NASA-JPL MARCH 2010 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs ) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time. On March 4, 2010 there were 1105 potentially hazardous asteroids. March 2010 Earth-asteroid encounters: Asteroid Date(UT) Miss Distance Mag. Size 2001 PT9 March 3 11.1 LD 15 305 m 4486 Mithra March 12 73.5 LD 15 3.3 km 2001 FM129 March 13 44.1 LD 16 1.5 km 2002 TE66 March 28 48.0 LD 15 940 m Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach. Source: NASA-JPL/CalTech http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ Mithra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mithra (Miθra) is the Avestan language name of the Zoroastrian divinity (yazata) of covenant and oath. In addition to being the divinity of contracts, ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithra - Cached Mithraic Mysteries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Mithraic Mysteries or Mysteries of Mithras (also Mithraism) was a ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraic_Mysteries 4486 Mithra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 4486 Mithra is an Apollo and Mars-crosser asteroid. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4486_Mithra