Newly discovered asteroid 2013PS13 shadowing 2005WK4 whizzes past Earth today

Posted: August 9, 2013 by tallbloke in Astronomy, Astrophysics, solar system dynamics

Some more confirmation that asteroids go around in pairs:

Discovered just 48 hours ago, asteroid 2013 PS13 is whizzing by Earth today at only 0.5 Lunar Distances from Earth alongside asteroid 2005 WK4, which is only 8.1 Lunar Distances away from Earth! Slooh tracked both asteroids this morning from the Canary Islands observatory – come check out the spectacular results along with Paul Cox.

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Comments
  1. kim2ooo says:
    August 9, 2013 at 8:17 pm

    Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings.

  2. Scute says:
    August 9, 2013 at 11:56 pm

    Oh, what a coincidence. I was just about to post my own August pairing on the DA14 thread (linked above) and thought I’d check my feeds first for crossed comments. I’ll pop back over there and click the post comment button.

  3. tchannon says:
    August 10, 2013 at 1:36 am

    This is more suggestive of clouds, in turn suggests a violent creation, ie. debris.

  4. tallbloke says:
    August 10, 2013 at 10:52 am

    Tim, indeed. The Perseid meteorite ‘cloud’ should be making visible shooting stars tonight.

  5. E Hughes says:
    August 10, 2013 at 2:05 pm

    Off topic,but reporting as they occur, a pair of small Earth directed CME’s :
    http://www.solarham.net/cmewatch2.htm
    And Typhoon Utor :
    http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp201311_5day.html

  6. Dva asteroida promašila Zemlju za dlaku | Matrix World says:
    August 12, 2013 at 9:28 am

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