The Wide - domain Infrared Survey Explorer ( WISE ) delegation spot an asteroid!2014 EN45is tumid ( 800 m ) , dour , and not going to toss off us . At it ’s close - approach on March 17th , it ’s go to pass by a downright spacious 19 million kilometres ( or 49.8 fourth dimension the Earth - lunar month distance ) .
In related to tidings , theBad Astronomer has a overnice little debunk on how 2003 QQ47 is not going to vote down us on March 21st . As a quick - hint when understand news stories , asteroids have their class of discovery engraft in their name . When I wrote about how2014 DX110or2014 ECweren’t move to kill us , you could say I was writing about late - discovered asteroid by the 2014 in their names . Freshly - discovered asteroid are usually the discipline of these “ We ’re all going to diiiieeee ! ” panics because the special number of observations means we do n’t necessarily know the orbital path very well yet . When one of these article is publish about an asteroid that we ’ve known about and dog for over a X ( 2003 QQ47 ) , then the terror is commonly because the the diarist has n’t checked JPL’sAsteroid WatchorNear Earth Objecttracking site .
https://gizmodo.com/we-will-not-be-obliterated-by-an-asteroid-today-1536717058
https://gizmodo.com/2014ef-isnt-going-to-kill-us-either-nor-will-2014do7-1537597613
Tl;dr ? we ’re not going to die from 2014 EN45 or 2003 QQ47 crash into us next week . We also wo n’t be die from 2010 FR9 , 2014 EM , 2014 EN12 , 2014 DM23 , or … really , it ’s a foresighted tilt of thing wo n’t be killing us this calendar week .
WISEphoto via@AmyMainzer . For the latest news program on asteroids that are n’t killing us , follow@AsteroidWatch . Have a rock ‘n’ roll you think might lead to our sudden dying ? Go on , inquire me about it !
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