Monday, June 9, 2008

June-July 2008 Earth-asteroid encounters:

Potentially Hazardous Asteroids are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known rocks is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time. [comment]
On June 10, 2008 there were 956 potentially hazardous asteroids.
June-July 2008 Earth-asteroid encounters:
Asteroid
Date(UT)
Miss Distance
Mag.
Size
2008 KO
June 1
4.4 ld
18
60 m
2008 KT
June 3
3.3 ld
20
9 m
2008 LB
June 9
3.3 ld
17
26 m
2008 LG2
June 13
9.2 ld
19
36 m
2008 LC
June 17
9.8 ld
18
55 m
2008 KN11
June 22
9.0 ld
18
110 m
2000 AD205
June 26
54 ld
17
800 m
1999vu
June 29
65 ld
16
1.6 km
2008 BT18
July 14
5.9 ld
13
1.0 km
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.