Posted on Jul 18, 2023
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"Astronomers at the Atlas Observatory in South Africa first spotted 2023 NT1 on July 15, two days after making its closest approach to Earth. The asteroid entered a 60,000-mile radius of the planet – about 1/4 the moon's distance to Earth."
"Astronomers at the Atlas Observatory in South Africa first spotted 2023 NT1 on July 15, two days after making its closest approach to Earth. The asteroid entered a 60,000-mile radius of the planet – about 1/4 the moon's distance to Earth."
A 200-foot asteroid that just missed Earth last week wasn't detected until two days later
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A small rock but its tough to spot all as so little funding is devoted for searching for earth crossers. Throw in our inability to spot incoming asteroids coming out of the sun.
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SGT Mary G.
Exactly, SGT (Join to see) It was small, however on the right trajectory, and did not burn up in the atmosphere - and do a number like that one in Russia - then it could do some damage wherever it would have landed. 1/4 the Moon's distance to the earth interests me. That is awfully close.
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SGT Mary G.
Hopefully! PO1 William "Chip" Nagel The Shoemakers started working on that way back before the 1990s. It started out as a voluntary network, which is how their team spotted the comet that impacted Jupiter. If I recall correctly there was some small government department within a department within a department that did receive a small amount of funding, maybe 15 years later. Don't know if it still exists.
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That would have made a mark, wherever it impacted. Glad it missed, but we dodged a bullet this time.
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