Surprise Asteroid Buzzed Earth Monday

[Pierre.Suave]

Sky-watchers in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific islands welcomed a surprise guest Monday: an asteroid that passed just 41,010 miles (66,000 kilometers) above Earth.

Discovered only days ago, asteroid 2009 DD45 zipped between our planet and the moon at 13:44 universal time (8:44 a.m. ET). The asteroid was moving at about 12 miles (20 kilometers) a second when it was closest to Earth.

At just 65 to 164 feet (20 to 50 meters) wide, the asteroid "was much fainter than anything visible to the naked eye" even during close approach, Spahr said.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090302-asteroid-earth.html

forgot the link, sorry...

[MrScorpio]

1. I wonder how big this thing was

Any details?

[Pierre.Suave]

2. sorry

I forgot the link:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090302-asteroid-earth.html

[kentauros]

3. According to the following source

it was the size of a ten-storey building:

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/03/02/surprise-asteroid-just-buzzed-earth-almost-killing-us-all/comment-page-1/

[Pierre.Suave]

4. People, this is HUGH!!!!

you were 36 minutes away from dying.