Asteroids Buzz Earth

By: Bill Waters
09/08/2010 09:36 PM ET

Asteroids Buzz Earth. NASA says that Asteroid 2010 RF12 & 2010 RX30 will buzz 154,000 miles of Earth, closer than the moon, on Wednesday. The asteroids were discovered Sunday.

The asteroids are, in galactic terms, are called a pair of near misses. Two space rocks will swing past the Earth, and they’ll be very close. In fact, it’s close enough to pass between the orbit of the Earth and the moon.

Their paths were computed by the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The size for the 2010 RX30 is 32-65 feet in width while 2010 RF12 is 20-46 feet wide. You’ll need a telescope to view them tonight.

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