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Related: About this forumAsteroid to pass between Earth and moon
An asteroid designated 2017 BX found just days ago, on January 20 will pass between the Earth and moon on late Tuesday night according to clocks in the Americas, early Wednesday morning according to clocks in Europe and Africa and Wednesday afternoon for Asia.
More at:
http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-pass-between-earth-and-moon-jan-25-2017-0445-utc
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Asteroid to pass between Earth and moon (Original Post)
Cadfael
Jan 2017
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mopinko
(70,178 posts)1. holy cow. i thought we were better at this.
tho i am assuming they didnt see it because it is so small, but...
marybourg
(12,633 posts)5. Sometimes it can't be seen
earlier because of the direction it comes from.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)2. Cool, thanks for the notice
dhill926
(16,351 posts)3. thank god trump's crack science team...
is all over it...
Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)4. there is a live feed here: