Tuesday, January 29, 2008

2007 TU24

Today this object is closest to Earth:

From Wikipedia:

"Goldstone Observatory carried out further observations of this asteroid on January 23 and January 24, 2008. Now the trajectory of this asteroid is known with such a high precision that scientists are able to calculate close approaches of this asteroid from the year 67 AD to 2141 AD. On January 29, 2008 at 08:33 UTC, asteroid 2007 TU24 will flyby the earth at distance 537,500 Km (0.003704 AU) with relative speed 9.248 Km/s.[9]"

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