Space Events

Near Earth Asteroids

Newly discovered Asteroid 2013 LR6, 12 meters in size, passed by Earth at only 0.3 Lunar Distances away on Saturday.

 

On June 9, 2013 there were 1397 potentially hazardous asteroids.

Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:

Asteroid	Date(UT)	Miss Distance	Size
2009 FE	Jun 4	9.6 LD	230 m
2000 FM10	Jun 5	50.3 LD	1.3 km
2002 KL3	Jun 6	66.4 LD	1.1 km
2013 LR6	Jun 8	0.3 LD	12 m
2013 LD2	Jun 10	6 LD	48 m
1999 WC2	Jun 12	39.2 LD	1.9 km
2006 RO36	Jun 18	70.9 LD	1.2 km
2001 PJ9	Jul 17	29.2 LD	1.1 km
2006 BL8	Jul 26	9.3 LD	48 m
2003 DZ15	Jul 29	7.6 LD	153 m
2005 WK4	Aug 9	8.1 LD	420 m
1999 CF9	Aug 23	24.7 LD	1.1 km

Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.