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Asteroid visitor next week

RavingMac

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The thing that bothers me about articles like this is they never seem to pay any attention to the effect of such a close approach to the Earth (and potentially even closer to the Moon) on the Asteroid's trajectory.

The orbit has to change (even a little). So will that increase or decrease the likelihood of future Earth impact?

Asteroid 2005 YU55 will zip by Earth next week
 
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Only 202,000 THOUSAND miles away...lol. At 1300ft wide, I'm assuming that spotting it in the sky will be similar to spotting an ant a ~2.5 miles away with the naked eye.
 
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Good thing the world ended on 10-31-11
 

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