Asteroid 2007 TU24 Close Approach

Scientists at NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have been monitoring asteroid 2007 TU24, which will pass about 344,000 miles of Earth tomorrow (Jan. 29) at 12:33 a.m. Pacific time (3:33 a.m. Eastern time). (more)

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[Ril3y00]

I love NASA

[RKBrockstheworld]

i went to solar system simulator and it says epoch may 14th ???

[AtheistCitizen]

& even if they were closer at some pt to the earth the calculation can be made so precisely[once observed for a couple o days or weeks] to say exactly what it will hit & what it will not hit. "Could" is couldn't.

[chopperkid208]

YEAH WHRES IT?

[mason104]

Excellent report.

[theoneagain]

what about that planet x 2012 thing nibiru real deal or is it just a HOAX

[4neidr]

The Earth's Moon is about 240,000 miles (it varies) that means the closest part of the pass was 1.4 times the moons distance!

[BigLittleEnvy]

344,000 miles from earth? that's closer to the moon's orbit than the earth; 90,000 or so, i beleive, so it could very well have hit the moon!

[djbarragan]

This is good to know. More comforting than everyone else's who try and worry people.

[YouTechno]

Nice image.

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