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Mile Wide Asteroid Passes Close On Monday
Boulder CO (SPX) March 5, 2006 An asteroid named 2000 PN9 will fly past Earth at a distance of about 2 million miles on March 6. There is no danger of a collision with the mile-wide space rock, but its nearest approach distance of eight lunar distances - on average, the Moon is 384,401 kilometers, or 246,017 miles away. It will be bright enough (12th magnitude) for amateur astronomers to photograph it using larger backyard telescopes and CCD cameras. Potentially Hazardous Asteroids are space rocks larger than about 100 meters (300 feet) wide that can approach Earth at distances closer than 0.05 astronomical units (the distance from Earth to the Sun), or about 4.6 million miles. At present, none of the 776 known PHAs is on a collision course with the planet for the foreseeable future - although astronomers are finding new ones all the time. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Asteroid 23187 (2000 PN9) Trajectory Viewer Ephemeris Space Weather Asteroid and Comet Impact Danger To Earth - News and Science
2102 Space Rock To Give Earth Its Closest Shave
Paris, France (AFP) Mar 02, 2006A space rock capable of sub-continent scale devastation has about a one in 1,000 risk of colliding with Earth early next century, the highest of any known asteroid, watchers said on Thursday. |
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