12 March 2010

4486 Mithra- 12March 2010 Earth Asteroid Approach


(click on image to englarge) (c) JPL/NASA
Asteroid 4486 Mithra March 12, 2010 as it passes

Near Earth Asteroids Encounters from NASA-JPL
MARCH 2010

Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs
) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones
all the time.
On March 4, 2010 there were 1105 potentially hazardous asteroids.

March 2010 Earth-asteroid encounters:
Asteroid
Date(UT)
Miss Distance
Mag.
Size
2001 PT9
March 3
11.1 LD
15
305 m
4486 Mithra
March 12
73.5 LD
15
3.3 km
2001 FM129
March 13
44.1 LD
16
1.5 km
2002 TE66
March 28
48.0 LD
15
940 m
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. Source: NASA-JPL/CalTech
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/

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