[meteorite-list] New Asteroid Detected Only After It Passes 76, 000 miles from Earth

From: Paul <etchplain_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 08:34:47 -0500
Message-ID: <9c3dd392-0f32-b1ff-1199-813921c1fd19_at_att.net>

Close shave from an undetected asteroid
By Eddie Irizarry in SPACE | July 25, 2017
http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2017-oo1-close-pass-undetected

Scientists spot a new asteroid the size of a
passenger plane (but only three days After
it passed just 76,000 miles from Earth)
By Cheyenne McDonald, Daily Mail, July 27, 2017
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4737450/Phew-Scientists-spot-asteroid-flew-past-Earth.html

Related news article is:

Planetary defense campaign will use real
asteroid for the first time, The University
of Arizona, July 28, 2017
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-planetary-defense-campaign-real-asteroid.html
http://tucson.com/news/science/university-of-arizona-to-lead-global-exercise-on-response-to/article_bc6fa864-366f-5ce1-9592-2ace77c430e1.html
https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/upcoming-asteroid-flyby-will-help-nasa-planetary-defense-network

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Sat 29 Jul 2017 09:34:47 AM PDT


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