Meteor Showers Seen as Asteroid Narrowly Misses Earth
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Astronomers confirm that an asteroid nearly collided with Earth this week
By JG Vibes
Intellihub.com
October 1, 2013
As we reported yesterday, meteor sightings are coming into the American Meteor Society by the thousands. However, what wasn’t reported by the mainstream media was the fact that these meteor showers coincided with an asteroid narrowly missing Earth.According to RT, a 15-meter asteroid, similar to the object that exploded above Russia in February, moving at a speed of 16km per second, was detected hours before it narrowly missed Earth over the weekend, according to Russian scientists.
“[The asteroid] was discovered on Friday night by our station near Lake Baikal and nine hours later it flew within 11,300km of the Earth’s surface, below the orbit of geostationary satellites. It was about 15 meters in size,” Vladimir Lipunov of the Moscow State University and the Sternberg Astronomical Institute indicated.[1]
Interestingly, there are reports of meteor sightings from 40 states, including Atlanta, GA, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee as of September 28, 2013.
Over the next century, astronomers predict many asteroids will pass Earth, with one the closest near-misses expected in April 2029. 99942 Apophis is set to pass 38.5 thousand km from the center of the planet, according to RT.
Sources:
[1] Asteroid near-miss reported by Russian scientists – RT
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