“2011 ES4”: this asteroid races simply previous the earth – WELT – Pledge Times

ASteroids very often race past the earth – but mostly at a fairly large distance. The asteroid “2011 ES4” will come closer to our planet at the beginning of next month.
On September 1st, please don’t lean too far out of the window, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) participated a whimsical tweet attention to the asteroid. Then “a mini-asteroid whizzes just past the earth”. Up to around 130,000 kilometers – around a third of the distance between the earth and the moon – 2011 ES4 will therefore a…

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