Largest asteroid to fly by Earth this year spotted in radar images - Space.com
7/12/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 9 months ago
by Samantha Mathewson
by Samantha Mathewson
A mile-wide asteroid called 1989 JA passed safely by Earth in May, and NASA collected observations of the space rock using the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex.
NASA has shared a new collection of images of the mile-wide asteroid pair that passed safely by Earth in May. On May 27, asteroid 1989 JA flew within 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) of o… [+2111 chars]
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