On May 23, 2012 there were 1293 potentially hazardous asteroids.
Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:
Asteroid |
Date(UT)
|
Miss Distance
|
Mag.
|
Size
|
2012 KA |
May 17
|
0.6 LD
|
--
|
9 m
|
2010 KK37 |
May 19
|
2.3 LD
|
--
|
31 m
|
4183 Cuno |
May 20
|
47.4 LD
|
--
|
5.7 km
|
2012 KW |
May 21
|
3.4 LD
|
--
|
19 m
|
2012 JV11 |
May 22
|
6.7 LD
|
--
|
68 m
|
2012 KT12 |
May 23
|
1.4 LD
|
--
|
25 m
|
2002 VX94 |
May 26
|
72.8 LD
|
--
|
1.1 km
|
2002 AC |
Jun 16
|
62.2 LD
|
--
|
1.2 km
|
1999 BJ8 |
Jun 16
|
68.8 LD
|
--
|
1.1 km
|
2005 GO21 |
Jun 21
|
17.1 LD
|
--
|
2.2 km
|
2003 KU2 |
Jul 15
|
40.2 LD
|
--
|
1.2 km
|
2004 EW9 |
Jul 16
|
46.8 LD
|
--
|
2.1 km
|
2002 AM31 |
Jul 22
|
13.7 LD
|
--
|
1.0 km
|
source: http://spaceweather.com/
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Newly discovered 2012 KT12 is a small 15-35 meter Apollo class near-Earth asteroid which will fly 0.0037 AU or 1.4 LD to both Earth and Moon on May 23. JPL Orbit: [link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]
Condition Code or orbit uncertainty estimate is a 8 on a scale of 0-9, with 0 being good, and 9 being highly uncertain.
Was first spotted May 19 but just added to NASA site today, and not yet posted on SpaceWeather list [link to spaceweather.com]source: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1876893/pg1
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