Saturday, July 16, 2011

Asteroid YU55 to pass Earth in November?

This is a sensationalized account which is much more accurately reported in the link below. The statement "YU55 orbits the sun every 14 years and last passed the earth in April 2010 at a distance of 1.5 million years." gives you a measure of the inaccuracy of this newspaper account. Distances are not measured in years. On that date, this asteroid was 2,205,000 km. from Earth.

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