According to NASA, the Asteroid 2007 TU24 will closely approach the Earth to within 1.4 lunar distances (334,000 miles or 537521 kilometers) on 2008 Jan. 29 08:33 UT.
Asteroid 2007 TU24 has between 150 and 600 meters in diameter will be observable in dark and clear skies with amateur telescopes of 3 inch apertures or larger.
2007 TU24 will be the closest currently known approach by a potentially hazardous asteroid of this size or larger until 2027 and the average interval between actual Earth impacts for an object of this size would be about 37,000 years. This time 2007 TU24 will don’t hit and will moves further from Earth (we hope so…).
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its interesting :S
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