Winston
Lorenzo von Matterhorn
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https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/201...ncounter-exceptional-image-movie-28-aug-2016/
On 28 Aug 2016, at 01:26 UT, the 35 meters (115 ft) large near-Earth asteroid 2016 QA2 made an exceptionally close encounter with our home planet. At the flyby time, the asteroid was at about 84,000 km (52195 miles) from the Earth's surface! That is 0.22 the average lunar distance.
At Virtual Telescope we managed to cover it around the flyby, getting amazing images.
Below is a stunning video, showing the extremely fast apparent motion of 2016 QA2. The [animated gif] video is 113X faster than the real motion.
The asteroid was only discovered one day prior (27 Aug 2016) to its closest approach:
https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/d...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor was estimated to be 20 meters (65.6 ft) large with an atmospheric impact equivalent to approximately 500 kilotons of TNT.
On 28 Aug 2016, at 01:26 UT, the 35 meters (115 ft) large near-Earth asteroid 2016 QA2 made an exceptionally close encounter with our home planet. At the flyby time, the asteroid was at about 84,000 km (52195 miles) from the Earth's surface! That is 0.22 the average lunar distance.
At Virtual Telescope we managed to cover it around the flyby, getting amazing images.
Below is a stunning video, showing the extremely fast apparent motion of 2016 QA2. The [animated gif] video is 113X faster than the real motion.
The asteroid was only discovered one day prior (27 Aug 2016) to its closest approach:
https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/d...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor was estimated to be 20 meters (65.6 ft) large with an atmospheric impact equivalent to approximately 500 kilotons of TNT.