Thursday, May 7, 2020

Asteroid the size of a VAN that went undetected by astronomers until the last moment comes within 9,000 miles of Earth in one of the closest flybys on record

An asteroid bigger than a Ford Transit van became the sixth closest asteroid to ever fly past earth yesterday. The object skimmed past Earth and was just 8,310 miles away from our planet - approximately three per cent of the distance to the moon (pictured, a not to scale visualisation of how close 2020 JJ came to Earth)