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Off Topic => Space News => Topic started by: jfelten on January 27, 2009, 07:03:50 AM

Title: Strange Asteroid 2009 BD Stalks the Earth
Post by: jfelten on January 27, 2009, 07:03:50 AM

"A 10 meter-wide asteroid named 2009 BD discovered earlier this month is making a slow pass of the Earth, coming within 400,000 miles (644,000 km) of our planet. The near-Earth asteroid (NEO) poses no threat to us, but it is an oddity worth studying. Astronomers believe the rock is a rare "co-orbital asteroid" which follows the orbit of the Earth, not receding more than 0.1 AU (15 million km) away. . . . "

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/01/25 ... the-earth/ (http://www.universetoday.com/2009/01/25/strange-asteroid-2009-bd-stalks-the-earth/)