Asteroid to pass close to Earth today
Science • January 2012 • Views: 1,041
An asteroid about the size of a school bus will pass close to Earth today, but it poses no danger to the planet, NASA astronomers say.
The huge rock, called Asteroid 2012 BX34, will close to within about 36,750 miles of Earth, or about .17 times the distance between the Earth and the moon, according to a Twitter post from Asteroid Watch, which is operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Near Earth Object Office.