On the 1st of June, Wednesday night at around 8:15 PM an asteroid the size of a truck passed close to Earth. Even thought this asteroid is not dangerous and would burn up in our atmosphere, the interesting thing about it it was much closer to Earth then the moon ever comes, with a distance of 215,000 miles (346,000 kilometers) from earth it was 24,000 miles closer to earth then the moon is at all times. NASA scientists named this asteroid 2009 BD, and after closer studies they determined it will stay close to Earth in the next moth or so, it will stay about 10 lunar distances the whole month.
I found it after searching recent space current events, I took a quick glimpse and realized it would interest me. I enjoyed reading it and learned more about asteroids, and small objects that float freely in space.
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