The Big Asteroid That Just Buzzed Earth Has Its Own Little Moon
Well, that’s a surprise.
The large asteroid that usually gave Earth a tighten shave
The moon measures usually about 230 feet opposite though is seemingly manifest in new radar images of asteroid 2004 BL86
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As for a asteroid, a grainy black-and-white images prove that it’s about 1,100 feet across.
The asteroid done a closest proceed to Earth during 11:19 EST on Jan. 26 during a stretch of usually 745,000 miles–or about 3.1 times a stretch from the world to the most bigger Moon.
The images were done by scientists regulating NASA’s 230-foot-wide Deep Space Network antenna
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