Another 'Near Miss'!

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The near earth asteroid (NEO) 8E4BDB1 is predicted to make a close flyby of the Earth; passing at a distance  of only 0.00108 AU (about 0.6 LD),  at about 9:04 UT on Sunday, 9 March.
The NEO will reach magnitude 12.6 and be observable from Europe and the Americas.

H=26.7
8E4BDB1 = 2008 EZ7

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Just another  name for the Near Earth  Object (NEO)

BTW,
LD = Lunar Distance
AU = Astronomical Units
Magnitude = the brightness
H = the apparent brightness (from it you can guess the size of the rock)

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Hum,
Another NEO provisionally named BJ19377, that has a similar orbit to NEO 8E4BDB1 is to make a close flyby of the Earth.
The two objects have such similar orbits that astronomers suspect that they may be the remnants of  a larger object  that broke up.

[size=9]2008 March 09,  13 UT: Position(2000):  R.A. = 08 35 20.1, Dec. = -03 18 22, V = 14.6[/size]

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Ohh noo misses, mustn't titter...