February 18, 2013
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Just as anticipated, on Friday, Feb. 15, asteroid 2012 DA14 passed us by, zipping 27,000 kilometers (17,000 miles) above Earth’s surface — well within the ring of geostationary weather and communications satellites that ring our world. Traveling a breakneck 28,100 km/hr (that’s [...]
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July 23, 2009
A near Earth object is an asteroid, comet, or meteroid whose orbit takes it within a close proximity to Earth. Many of this type of object have impacted the Earth in the past. Some as recent as last year. Most of them would burn up in the atmosphere and create a wonderful light show, but [...]
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