[SEDXC] Close Pass

[Robert Carroll]

>From Spaceweather.com

 

ASTEROID FLYBY: Asteroid 2010 TG19
<http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2010%20TG19&orb=1>  is flying past
the Earth-Moon system today, Oct. 22nd, only 24,000 miles beyond the orbit
of the Moon. The 70-meter space rock is about twice the size of the asteroid
or comet that flattened
<http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30jun_tunguska/>
a forest in Siberia in 1908. In this case, however, there is no danger of a
collision. 
Astronomers at the Sormano Astronomical Observatory in Italy photographed
the asteroid's approach on Oct. 21st using a 20-inch telescope: image
<http://www.spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=En
rico-Colzani-Graziano-Ventre-Valter-Giuliani-2010-TG19-web_1287695672.jpg> .