Oct 14
Asteroid Whizzes By Earth
Posted in: space, Space Tech, Today's Chili
Mankind is safe. For now. Earlier this week, an asteroid whizzed by our little blue planet–dangerously close, at least in astronomical terms. The rock flew above a section of Southeast Asia by Singapore. At around 6:51 AM ET, it was at its closest to the planet–around 28,000 miles away.
The asteroid, 2010 TD54 was first discovered on October 9th, by scientists in Arizona at a NASA-sponsored lab.
The rock was pretty small–33 feet across at most, according to the MIT scientists who were monitoring it. Even if it was headed toward Earth, we likely would have been okay. The asteroid would have almost certainly burned up when it entered the atmosphere.
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