The newly discovered near-Earth asteroid 2023 EY will sweep closely, but safely, past Earth on March 16-17, 2023. At its closest, it’ll be within about 149,000 miles (about 239,000 km) of Earth. That’s about 62% of the moon’s average distance.
The asteroid is estimate to be in the 13-to-29-meter range (about 43 feet to 95 feet) in diameter. That puts it in a size range similar to the Chelyabinsk meteor, which was approximately 17 to 20 meters in diameter.
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A newly found asteroid about the same size size of a house will pass between the Earth and the Moon on Friday, March 17, 2023.
It might sound a big distance, but large asteroids that come that close are defined as a potentially hazardous object.
However, the smaller—and completely non-threatening—2023 EY will get to within a fraction of that. It will pass a mere 149,000 miles/240,000 kilometers from Earth. That's slightly less than two-thirds of the Earth-Moon distance.
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NASA's dramatic Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a rousing success, scientists say.
"I feel like it looks like a happy fish swimming to the left with its nose kind of pointed up," Carolyn Ernst, a planetary scientist at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), said of a new high-resolution mosaic of Dimorphos, which was released on Monday (March 13) at the ...
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Last fall, when NASA's DART mission impacted Didymos' moon Dimorphos in a dramatic (and successful ) attempt to change the object's orbit, DART got a quick look at the Didymos system before the probe was purposefully smashed to pieces.
Alongside demonstrating the capability to prevent future asteroid strikes on Earth, DART also gathered new information about the dynamics of the pair of asteroids.
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