Today at 23:58 UT asteroid labeled as 2009 FP will pass the Earth at a distance of about 0.003AU which roughly represents 1.2 Lunar Distances. The comfortable separation of 445,000 km is a clean miss, nevertheless it is quite close by space standards.
This Near Earth Object (NEO) was discovered at 05:46 UT on March 29 by Mount Lemmon Survey (MLS) in Arizona, one of the three facilities of the Catalina Sky Survey. The probability of impacting the Earth is only 1 in 133,000. The asteroid has a diameter of approximately 10 meters and poses no risk to anyone as it would certainly break up in the Earth's atmosphere and rain down only a few small fragments (meteorites).
See the summary of recent close misses and "hits" here
This Near Earth Object (NEO) was discovered at 05:46 UT on March 29 by Mount Lemmon Survey (MLS) in Arizona, one of the three facilities of the Catalina Sky Survey. The probability of impacting the Earth is only 1 in 133,000. The asteroid has a diameter of approximately 10 meters and poses no risk to anyone as it would certainly break up in the Earth's atmosphere and rain down only a few small fragments (meteorites).
See the summary of recent close misses and "hits" here
