Apparently, it is a little crowded out there (Blog 10 of 30)

 

So did you see this article?

Apparently, we had a near miss yesterday.... well, "near" in space terms anyway. 

A asteroid, named 2013 RZ53, zipped between us and the moon yesterday.

Now it was still 148,000 miles (230,800 kilometers) away at its closest point, but that is still close.  For comparison, the moon orbits Earth at an average distance of about 239,000 miles (384,600 km).

The scarier part (if you are the type to be scared) .... read this.....

"NASA scientists have found more than 90 percent of the mountain-sized near-Earth   asteroids, behemoths larger than 0.6 miles (1 km) that could cause problems on a global scale if they were to impact the planet.

"But just 30 percent of the roughly 15,000 near-Earth asteroids that are 460 feet (140 m) wide have been cataloged, and less than 1 percent of the more than 1 million objects that are about 100 feet (30 m) in diameter have been found, NASA estimates

So far this month, scientists and amateur astronomers submitting data to the Minor Planet Center have found 75 near-Earth objects and two comets. This year alone, observers have found 676 near-Earth objects and 46 comets.

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Sweet dreams!!!!  :)