Tag: Asteroid Flybys


  • A Run of Near-Earth Visitors: NASA-Tracked Asteroids Whiz Past Earth

    A Run of Near-Earth Visitors: NASA-Tracked Asteroids Whiz Past Earth

    Overview: What NASA’s JPL Has Reported NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which maintains the primary catalog of near-Earth objects (NEOs), has reported a close series of flybys by several small asteroids. According to JPL’s NEO database, three objects are currently on trajectories that will bring them past Earth in quick succession. While their sizes are…