Russian-Meteor-Sized Asteroid Passing Earth At Lunar Distance | Video

Monday, March 4, 2013 - 09:30 in Astronomy & Space

An asteroid (named 2013 EC) on a trajectory to fly-by Earth was discovered on March 2nd, 2013 at the Mt. Lemmon Observatory in Arizona. Its nearest approach (March 4) was ~246,000 miles, about the distance of the Moon.

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