New Asteroid (2016 EF195) Flyby 15,000 miles from Earth's Surface - Eyes on the Skies (Video)

New asteroid discovery 2016 EF195: 15,000 miles from Earth’s surface. 

It is the 4,881st asteroid (within 0.5 AU) to be discovered in the first two weeks of March 2016.

NASA NEOP has just posted details of asteroid 2016 EF195 which made its close-approach at just 15,558 miles from Earth’s surface on 11-Mar-2016 at 03Z52.  http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr…

2016 EF195 is estimated to be 20m – 50m in diameter (based on magnitude) and travelling at 10km/s  or 6.25 mi/s.  It’s close-approach brought it beneath geo-stationary satellite altitude of ~22,236 miles.  It was not detected until 4 days after its close-approach.

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Close approaches less than 10 LD March 18-19  2016

Asteroid          Date(UT)      Miss         Size
                                             Distance

2016 EL157      Mar 18       4.5 LD       18 m
2010 FX9          Mar 19        6.9 LD       62 m
2016 EO156      Mar 19       3.5 LD        7 m
2016 EN156      Mar 19       1.6 LD       12 m
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