WATCH: Double Asteroid’ Zooming by Earth at 43,000 mph Captured in Amazing Photo
By Stephen Sorace, Fox News // June 4, 2019
The asteroid, classified as 1999 KW4, is made up of two components
ABOVE VIDEO: A unique “double asteroid” was photographed by a powerful telescope as it whizzed by Earth last month at over 43,000 mph.
(FOX NEWS) – A unique “double asteroid” was photographed by a powerful telescope as it whizzed by Earth last month at over 43,000 mph.
The asteroid, classified as 1999 KW4, is made up of two components — a larger body orbited by a smaller one separated by about 1.6 miles.
It got as close as 3.2 million miles to Earth on May 25 — about 14 times the distance from Earth to the Moon, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said in a news release Monday.
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