60-Foot Asteroid To Give Earth Very Close Shave | Orbit Animation
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 - 20:30
in Astronomy & Space
The space rock (named 2014 RC) was discover on August 31st, 2014 by the Catalina Sky Survey. Its closest approach, about 2:18pm EDT - September 7th, will be about one-tenth the distance from Earth to the Moon (~25,000 miles).