NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID

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On March 3rd MIT's LINEAR program discovered
a new near-Earth asteroid, 2001 EC. The
kilometer-wide space rock zoomed past Earth
on Feb. 27th just four times farther away
than the Moon and brightened to 11th magnitude
at closest approach.

What is noteworthy is that they didn't see
this kilometer wide object till 4 days after
it passed ::::-§

Space Weather

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), March 08, 2001


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