{"id":14323,"date":"2010-04-09T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/asteroid-to-fly-by-within-moons-orbit-thursday\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T08:10:13","slug":"asteroid-to-fly-by-within-moons-orbit-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/asteroid-to-fly-by-within-moons-orbit-thursday.php","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid to Fly by Within Moon’s Orbit Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Orbit of asteroid 2010 GA6<\/span><\/div>

A newly discovered asteroid, 2010 GA6, will safely fly by Earth this Thursday at 4:06 p.m. Pacific (23:06 U.T.C.). At time of closest approach 2010 GA6 will be about 359,000 kilometers (223,000 miles) away from Earth - about 9\/10ths the distance from to the moon. The asteroid<\/span>, approximately 22 meters (71 feet) wide, was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey, Tucson, Az.<\/span><\/p>

\"Fly bys of near-Earth objects within the moon's orbit occur every few weeks,\" said Don Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Office<\/span> at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/span> in Pasadena, Calif.

<\/a>NASA<\/a> <\/span>detects and tracks asteroids and comets passing close to Earth using both ground and space-based telescopes. The Near-Earth Object Observations Program<\/span>, commonly called \"Spaceguard<\/span>,\" discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them and plots their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet.<\/p>

JPL manages the Near-Earth Object Program<\/span> Office for NASA's Science Mission<\/span> Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., operates the Arecibo Observatory under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation<\/span> in Arlington, Va.<\/p>

For more information about asteroids <\/span>and near-Earth objects, visit: http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/asteroidwatch<\/a><\/p>

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