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posted by martyb on Tuesday April 04 2017, @02:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the Where-is-the-Earth-shattering-kaboom? dept.

CNET reports that two asteroids, 2017 FU102 and 2017 FT102, passed the Earth on 2 April and 3 April.

According to EarthSky,

The near-Earth asteroid 2017 FU102 was discovered by the Mt. Lemmon Survey in Arizona (USA) on 29 March 2017. Today (April 2, 2017), it will have a very close, but safe encounter with the Earth (about 0.6 times the mean distance of the moon).

[...] this ~10 meters large rock will reach its minimum distance from us of 143,000 miles (230,000 km).

The other object, 2017 FT102, is smaller and its approach to the Earth was at a greater distance. It was also discovered on 29 March.

[By comparison, the Chelyabinsk meteor was estimated to be 20 meters in diameter. --Ed.]

Further information:
2017 FU102 at IAU Minor Planet Center
2017 FT102 at IAU Minor Planet Center

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday April 04 2017, @04:36PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday April 04 2017, @04:36PM (#488682) Journal

    Image of 2017 FU102 [virtualtelescope.eu]

    Any image of 2017 FT102?

    List of Near Earth Objects [weather.gg].
    Which writes that 2017 GM will come 0.04 of the distance moon-earth and have a diameter of 2.8 - 6.2 m and a speed of 18.50 km/s. It came within 16 000 km on 2017-04-03 earthsky.org [earthsky.org] writes.

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