Asteroid 2024 CY1 flew about 75,500 miles (121,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock is about 16 feet (8 m) wide. Credit: Space.com | orbit animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve Spaleta ...
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Asteroid 2022 WJ1 made first and final contact with our planet on November 19, 2022. It is now estimated to be an S-chondrite ...
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The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, will come over twice as close to us as the moon, at a distance of around 104,000 miles.
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In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.
Currently, more than 2 million miles away, the object is too small and faint to see without a powerful telescope.