[guide.chat] news asteroid 4pm
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Asteroid's near-miss with Earth
An asteroid will today make one of the closest cosmic near-misses with Earth
ever recorded.
The asteroid's path makes it the closest space-rock to pass by the Earth since
June 2011 Photo: CORBIS
By Murray Wardrop12:18PM GMT 27 Jan 201255 Comments
The chunk of space rock, estimated to be about 36ft in diameter, will pass
within around 37,000 miles of the Earth at 4pm.
Although the asteroid ? named 2012 BX34 ? will travel past less than a fifth of
the distance to the Moon, experts said there is no cause for concern.
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"It's one of the closest approaches recorded," said Gareth Williams, associate
director of the US-based Minor Planet Center.
"It makes it in to the top 20 closest approaches, but it's sufficiently far
away ... that there's absolutely no chance of it hitting us," he told the BBC.
The asteroid's path makes it the closest space-rock to pass by the Earth since
object 2011 MD in June 2011.
Earlier estimates put the asteroid's closest distance at as little as 12,000
miles, near the distance at which geostationary satellites reside, but
observations overnight showed it will pass at a more comfortable distance.
Although the asteroid will not be visible to the naked eye, Dr Williams said
that keen backyard astronomers could get a look.
"We've had three sets of observations in the last few hours from amateur
observers in the UK," he said.
2005 YU55 was the last asteroid to pass near the earth around 200,000 miles away
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