A near miss today
Earth takes a near miss today from Asteroid 2004 FH
As reported by the
JPL web site
bq. A small near-Earth asteroid (NEA), discovered Monday night by the NASA-funded LINEAR asteroid survey, will make the closest approach to Earth ever recorded. There is no danger of a collision with the Earth during this encounter.
bq. The object, designated 2004 FH, is roughly 30 meters (100 feet) in diameter and will pass just 43,000 km (26,500 miles, or about 3.4 Earth diameters) above the Earth's surface on March 18th at 5:08 PM EST (2:08 PM PST, 22:08 UTC).
This is close - geosynchronous satellites orbit at 22,236 miles.
Posted by DaveH at March 18, 2004 10:02 AM