Big asteroid to sweep close September By Eddie Irizarry in Astronomy Essentials, August 13, 2017 http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/asteroid-1981-et3-3122-florence-pass-earth-2017-binoculars.https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news198.html
"Asteroid 3122 Florence is the biggest near-Earth object to pass this close since this category of objects was discovered over a century ago." Close encounter: asteroid the size of a house set for near miss with Earth Space rock 2012 TC4 expected to zoom by harmlessly, coming within 27,300 miles – an eighth of the distance from the Earth to the Moon The Guardian, Agence France-Presse, August 10, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/11/close-encounter-asteroid-2012-tc4-size-of-a-house-near-miss-with-earth Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list