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WOW!!!!

I saw it about 10 o'clock. I stay in Glasgow Scotland UK .
Spectactular sight, huge trailing tail, travelling silently. Sight of a lifetime !



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Asteroid (4486) Mithra has just passed the Earth.

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The 2000 - 4500 metre wide asteroid (4486) Mithra will make a close pass (73.5 Lunar Distances, 0.1890 AU), travelling at 22.64 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th March, 2010.

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The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

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