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But just last week an Asteroid the size of a VW Bug will come closer to the Earth than anything lately.
Newly-discovered asteroid 2011 CA7 is going to fly past Earth on Feb. 9th only 63,000 miles away, or 1/4th the distance to the Moon. At closest approach around 1700 UT, the VW-Bug-sized space rock will zip through the constellation Orion glowing like a 17th magnitude star.
Originally posted by Omnislash772
yeah according to www.spaceweather.com it will be visible around the constellation Orion in the night sky
also first post yay
edit: darn Chadwickus beat me to itedit on 8-2-2011 by Omnislash772 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Chadwickus
reply to post by coolottie
But just last week an Asteroid the size of a VW Bug will come closer to the Earth than anything lately.
Umm...
I think we're a little confused here...
Doc!?
From SpaceWeather:
Newly-discovered asteroid 2011 CA7 is going to fly past Earth on Feb. 9th only 63,000 miles away, or 1/4th the distance to the Moon. At closest approach around 1700 UT, the VW-Bug-sized space rock will zip through the constellation Orion glowing like a 17th magnitude star.
edit on 8/2/11 by Chadwickus because: (no reason given)