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Old 04-17-2020, 03:26 PM
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Question Asteroids passing earth, April 2020

on April 18/19th there will be a large asteroid passing earth.
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A fairly large asteroid discovered nearly three years ago will safely pass about 1.1 million miles from Earth on April 19. That's about 4.6 times the Earth-moon distance.
on April 29th there will be an even larger asteroid passing earth.
Named 52768 (1998 OR2)
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is an asteroid on an eccentric orbit, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Amor group with a diameter of 2–4 kilometers. It was discovered on 24 July 1998
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(52768)_1998_OR2


Anyone else interested in this stuff?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potent...zardous_object
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