Near-Earth Objects

A near-Earth object is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun distance (194.5 million km or 121 million miles).

near-Earth objects discovered over the last 7 days

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Hazardous: Not defined

Diameter
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Last Approach
Unknown
Destruction
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Miss Distance
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Rel Velocity
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Estimated human deaths:

More details

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For comparison, the approximately 12km asteroid that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs released energy estimated at 72 trillion tons of TNT. That is -- more than this one.)

What does "Hazardous" mean?

Labeling an object as "potentially hazardous" means:
  • its orbit brings it within 7.5 million km (0.05 AU) of Earth
  • it's at least about 140 meters in size