An asteroid the size of a small motorhome zoomed near Earth last night (June 1), coming closer to us than the moon ever does.
The 23-foot-long (7-meter) space rock, named 2009 BD, came within 215,000 miles (346,000 kilometers) of Earth at around 8:51 p.m. EDT (0051 GMT on June 2). The moon’s average distance from us is about 239,000 miles (385,000 km).
2009 BD never threatened to hit Earth on this pass, researchers said. But even if the asteroid had slammed into us, it wouldn’t have been a big deal.
Read the full article at SPACE.COM
Sure it wasn’t Planet X?!
Hmm. No big deal? Depends how close it was to ME when it ‘slammed’ into the Earth.
……unless it hit them!
It would have been a big deal if it had hit my greenhouse! Took me ages to grow thos tomatoes…