David W. Zavitz (12 Dec 2005)
"3 NEAR misses ..."


NO WONDER there were NO updates posted until today ...
since this past Aug.

To see WHY ...  take a good LOOK at these: (First go
back a few months ... and then go forward to the
present ...)

1.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?name=2005+XA8
2.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?name=2005+XX
3.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?name=2005+WC1
 

http://spaceweather.com/
 
 

On 11 Dec 2005 there were 748 known Potentially
Hazardous Asteroids

December 2005 Earth-asteroid encounters

ASTEROID MISS
DATE(UT)         DISTANCE  MAG. SIZE(meters)

2005 XA8 Dec. 5  0.6 LD  15  ~35 m
2005 XX  Dec. 9  2.2 LD  18 ~20 m
2005 WC1 Dec. 14 7.9 LD 15  ~370 m

Notes: LD is a "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km,
the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also
equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the
asteroid on the date of closest approach.

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