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Asteroid Flyby Will Benefit NASA Detection and Tracking Network

By DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Laurie Cantillo/Dwayne Brown | NASA on Jul 31, 2017   Featured, Science/Education  

Asteroid Flyby Will Benefit NASA Detection and Tracking Network

The asteroid is roughly the same size as the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013. “It will come no closer than 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometers),” from Earth on Oct. 12, 2017 according to NASA. Image-NASA via Space.com NASA scientists are excited about the upcoming close flyby of a small asteroid and plan to […]

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