* Astronomy

Earth had a near miss with a passing asteroid this week. The space rock, labelled 2008 VM, was only discovered on Monday (3 November) at 5.49 UT as it raced towards us.
Hours later, at 22.29 UT, it skimmed by at a distance of just 28,000 miles - around an eighth as far the moon.

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Object: 2008VM    

     date         MJD       sigma sigimp   dist ±   width    stretch    p_RE    exp. en.    PS  
   YYYY/MM                                 (RE)       (RE)      RE/sig               MT           
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2024/11/03.965  60617.965   0.630 0.000    0.19 ±    0.000  2.62E+07  3.62E-08  4.47E-11  -9.45
2025/11/04.218  60983.218   0.640 0.000    0.29 ±    0.089  7.03E+06  1.33E-07  1.64E-10  -8.91
2031/11/04.731  63174.731  -0.604 0.000    0.89 ±    0.088  3.56E+04  2.20E-05  2.48E-08  -6.85

Based on   20 optical observations (of which   6 are rejected as outliers)
from 2008/11/03.244 to 2008/11/03.387.

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