ninpo masinac
18.03.2004., 16:56
SAN DIEGO - As far as flying space rocks go, it's as close an encounter as mankind has ever had.
A 100-foot diameter asteroid will pass within 26,500 miles of Earth on Thursday evening, the closest-ever brush on record by a space rock, NASA astronomers said.
The asteroid's close flyby, first spied late Monday, poses no risk, NASA astronomers stressed.
"It's a guaranteed miss," astronomer Paul Chodas, of the near-Earth object office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said Wednesday.
A 100-foot diameter asteroid will pass within 26,500 miles of Earth on Thursday evening, the closest-ever brush on record by a space rock, NASA astronomers said.
The asteroid's close flyby, first spied late Monday, poses no risk, NASA astronomers stressed.
"It's a guaranteed miss," astronomer Paul Chodas, of the near-Earth object office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said Wednesday.