Two newly discovered asteroids flew past Earth within 1 lunar distance since January 20, 2020. These are the second and third known asteroids to flyby Earth within 1 LD since the start of the year. The first, designated 2020 BK3 is an Apollo-class asteroid that flew…
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2020 AP1 flew past Earth at a distance of 0.85 LD / 0.00218 AU (326 123 km / 202 643 miles) on January 2, 2020. This is the first known asteroid to flyby Earth within 1 lunar distance this year. In 2019, we had 76 such…
Asteroid 2019 YV4 flew past Earth at a distance of 0.98 LD / 0.00251 AU (375 490 km / 233 319 miles) on December 25, 2019. This is the 76th known asteroid to flyby Earth within 1 lunar distance in 2019. 2019 YV4 belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids and was first…
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2019 YU2 flew past Earth at 19:28 UTC on December 23, 2019 at a distance of 0.26 LD / 0.00066 AU (98 734 km / 61 350 miles). This is the 75th known asteroid to flyby Earth since the start of the year. 2019 YU2 belongs to the…
Two newly discovered asteroids designated 2019 YS and 2019 YB flew past Earth within 1 lunar distance on December 18, 2019. Since the start of the year, our sky surveys have discovered a total of 75 <1LD asteroids. 2019 YS flew past us at a distance of 0.17 LD /…
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2019 WG2 flew past Earth at a distance of 0.47 LD / 0.00121 AU (181 013 km / 112 476 miles) at 08:44 UTC on November 23, 2019. Apollo-class asteroid 2019 WG2 was first observed at ATLAS-MLO, Mauna Loa, Hawaii on November 24,…
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2019 WV1 flew past Earth at a distance of 0.72 LD / 0.00186 AU (278 252 km / 172 897 miles) at 23:45 UTC on November 19, 2019. This is the 70th known asteroid to flyby Earth within 1 lunar distance since the start of the year….
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2019 WH will flyby Earth at a distance of 0.22 LD / 0.00057 AU (85 270 km / 52 984 miles) on November 19, 2019. This object was first observed at Catalina Sky Survey, Arizona on November 18, just one day before its close…
Two newly discovered Apollo-class asteroids designated 2019 VB5 and VF5 flew past Earth within 1 lunar distance on November 9, 2019. 2019 VB5 was first observed at Mt. Lemmon Survey, Arizona on November 8, one day before its close approach. The object flew past us…
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2019 VS4 flew past Earth at 0.36 LD / 0.00093 AU (139 126 km / 86 448 miles) on November 6, 2019. It was first observed at ISON-Byurakan Observatory on the same day. This object belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids and has…
