Reply to post: Re: Wish upon a star

Sadly, the catastrophic impact with Apophis asteroid isn't going to happen in 2068

Swiss Anton

Re: Wish upon a star

We had a near miss with a 100m-140m rock in June of last year (it is named 2020LD). The rock came as close as 200,000 miles, which 80% of the distance to the moon. It wasn't spotted until 2 days after it had passed us. I guess we got lucky.

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