Podcasts Science Astronomy Travelers In The Night 22E-34-Number 5000

22E-34-Number 5000

Published: April 30, 2019, 3 p.m.

b"The 5000th Earth approaching asteroid discovered by the University of Arizona's NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey is approximately 3 times the size of the one which injured 1491 people in Russia in February of 2013. It was discovered by my teammate Jess Johnson. Happily, its closest approach to Earth is slightly farther than our moon."