Mar 03 2016
A decent-size asteroid will zoom past Earth next week, but astronomers aren’t sure exactly when the flyby will happen, or just how close the space rock is going to get. The latest observations suggest that the 100-foot-wide (30 meters) near-Earth asteroid 2013 TX68 will come within about 3 million miles (5 million kilometers) of Earth’s …
Mar 01 2016
UPDATED ON FEB. 25 AT 2:40 P.M. PT: Additional observations of asteroid 2013 TX68 have been obtained, refining its orbital path and moving the date of the asteroid’s Earth flyby from March 5 to March 8.The observations, from archived images provided by the NASA-funded Pan-STARRS asteroid survey, enabled scientists at NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object …
Feb 24 2016
Il 5 marzo c.a. un asteroide, denominato “2013 TX68”, potrebbe transitare a soli 10500 km dalla superficie del nostro pianeta, cioè ben al di sotto della cintura di Clarke dove orbitano i satelliti geostazionari. In realtà la sua orbita è nota in modo approssimato perchè è tuttora in corso di variazione da quando il corpo …
