Newly-Discovered Asteroid Zips Past Earth
- By Frank Dappah, Associate Editor
- Jan 30, 2017
- 1 min read
A newly-discovered Asteroid approximately the size of a school bus cruised closely by the earth on Tuesday January 24th a few days after it's discovery.
Ateroid 2017 BX buzzed by the earth at about 162,252 miles at 11:45 PM EST. The online Observatory slooh.com tracked the rock late Tuesday. The Asteroid was first discovered on Friday January 20th 2017.
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The Asteroid is rougly 46 feet in diameter, according to the Minor Planet Center at Harvard - Smithsonian center for Astrophysics. NASA's Asteroid watch team puts the rock at about 20 feet in diameter. Slooh named the Object "Rerun", after Fred Berry's Character on the TV show " What's happening'. Rerun is the second Asteroid to cruise by the earth this month. The other, AGB flew by the earth on January 9th 2017. Rerun,s dim brightness and speed made it difficult to spot at first.
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