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Near-Earth asteroid 2015 KW120: an image (28 May 2015)

05/29/2015

Near-Earth Asteroid 2015 KW120 getting close: an image (28 May 2015)

While coming for its close encounter with the Earth on 29 May 2015, we managed to image near-Earth asteroid 2015 KW120 while it was approaching us. The image above is a single 120-seconds exposure, remotely taken with PlaneWave...

asteroid / near Earth

05/28/2015

Near-Earth Asteroid 2015 KW120 is coming as close as the Moon next 29 May, 2015

On 25 May 2015, the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery by the Catalina Sky Survey of the 25-meters large asteroid 2015 KW120, going to safely brush us tomorrow. This small minor planet will be at 1.1 lunar...