That will make it a particularly close near-miss—the fourth closest ever recorded—and it was only noticed just five days before its closest approach.
On Thursday, Jan. 26 at 21:17 Universal Time (16:17 EST) asteroid 2023 BU will get to within 6,137 miles/9,877 kilometers of Earth's center.
Near-Earth Asteroid 2023 BU extremely close encounter: online observation – 26 Jan.
The near-Earth asteroid 2023 BU was discovered by G. Borisov on 21 Jan. 2023 and announced the following day . Its diameter in estimated in 3.7 – 8.2 meters the range, while the minimum distance from us will be reached on 26 Jan.
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The Lucy asteroid probe's solar array still isn't latched, but NASA's fine with it | Space
The team behind NASA's Lucy asteroid mission is suspending efforts to get a troublesome solar array to fully deploy and latch.
Lucy launched in October 2021, beginning the first-ever visit to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids . These are thought to be primitive objects from the early days of the solar system that orbit ahead of and behind the giant planet as it makes its way around the sun.
Ryugu asteroid sheds light into the origins of the solar system
The research was recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy . The work was funded by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, and the National Science Foundation's Instrumentation and Facilities program.
Researchers used isotopic analysis to find out how carbonate minerals from the asteroid were crystallized through reactions with water. According to the team, this is believed to have originally accreted to the asteroid as ice in the still-forming solar system, then warmed into liquid.
NASA reveals aircraft-sized asteroid speeding towards Earth! | Tech News
Numerous asteroids make close trips to Earth on a daily basis. Although none of these asteroids which zoom past Earth at blistering speed actually hit the surface, they are still classified as Potentially Hazardous Objects due to the close proximity by which they make their close approach.
NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) has warned that the asteroid, named Asteroid 2019 BO2, will make its closest approach to Earth tomorrow, January 24, at a distance of 4.6 million kilometers.
There's an asteroid surprise in this week's Hubble image | Digital Trends
This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a small but intriguing galaxy called UGC 7983, which is thought to be similar to some of the earliest galaxies that existed in the universe.
As well as the galactic star of the show, the frame of the image is littered with galaxies of all types that are visible in the background, as well as many nearby stars dotting the image that are located much closer than the background galaxies.
How Our View of the Universe Could Slowly Fade Away - CNET
Monisha Ravisetti is a science writer at CNET. She covers climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical thought experiments.
At nightfall, after the final scenes of fiery clouds and flamingo sunbeams fade to black, he peers up at the sky to watch space rocks swimming along our solar system's gravitational tides.
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