[meteorite-list] Small Asteroid 2013 LR6 Between Earth and Moon Tonight

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 16:08:59 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201306072308.r57N8xhM017638_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-195

Small Asteroid Between Earth and Moon Tonight
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
June 07, 2013

Small asteroid 2013 LR6 will safely fly past this evening at 9:42 p.m.
PDT (which is June 8 at 12:42 a.m. EDT/June 8 at 04:42 UTC) at a
distance of about 65,000 miles (105,000 kilometers) above Earth's
surface. The space rock, which is about 30 feet (10 meters) in diameter,
will be above the Southern Ocean, south of Tasmania, at the time of
closest approach. Asteroid 2013 LR6 was discovered by the NASA-sponsored
Catalina Sky Survey on June 6.

NASA's Near-Earth Object Program at NASA Headquarters, Washington,
manages and funds the search, study and monitoring of asteroids and
comets whose orbits periodically bring them close to Earth. JPL manages
the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA's Science Mission
Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute
of Technology in Pasadena.

More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is available at:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/, http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch and via
Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/asteroidwatch .

DC Agle 818-393-9011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
agle at jpl.nasa.gov

Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726
NASA Headquarters, Washington
dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov

2013-195
Received on Fri 07 Jun 2013 07:08:59 PM PDT