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A peanut shaped asteroid discovered in May 2014 named '2014 JO25' and 1.3-kilometres long, passes just 0.01175 astronomical units or just over 1 million miles, or 4.57 lunar distances from Earth at 1:24pm (BST) tonight 19th - 20th April. Moon rise is about 3:30am BST on 20 April so, a dark(ish) sky and if clear, this will be observable with a telescope. It passes near a star called Cor Caroli just below the constellation Ursa Major.
Posted : 19/04/2017 1:43 pm
That's some peanut!
Posted : 19/04/2017 3:01 pm
Ha, NASA sends nutcracker to eliminate threat.
Another one in 2027 will be just one Lunar distance away.
I would have like to timelapse this asteroid but we've got cloudy skies forecast tonight 🙁
Posted : 19/04/2017 7:13 pm
just one Lunar distance away
Away from us and not from the Moon, I hope!
Posted : 19/04/2017 7:22 pm
