... Asteroid Nearly Destroys Earth by Dave Berry . ... three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence ...
... was classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA), meaning its computed orbit would bring it within 0.05 astronomical units of Earth (1 AU is the mean distance from the Earth to the Sun) and it had an estimated size of at least 150 meters across ...
... the program specifically tracks asteroids called Near Earth Objects (NEOS) whose orbits cross the orbit of the Earth ... that could potentially harm the Earth - such as the large one that hit Siberia in the early 1900s and subsequently leveled 2 ...
... The daily results from mid-February, 2000 to early March, 2000 are shown on the left. ... These are corrected for the Earth's rotation about its axis and its orbital motion about the Sun. ...
... More information can be found regarding our observations of Near Earth Asteroid 2008QT3 . ... National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "The Ohio State University KELT Telescope -- Early Results ...