* Astronomy

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RE: Asteroid (277475) 2005 WK4

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The 250 - 570 metre wide asteroid 2005 WK4 will make a close pass (28.0 lunar distances, 0.0720 AU), travelling at 10.67 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th August 2014 @ 11:27 UT ±00:01.

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

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NASAs Deep Space Network antenna takes Radar Images of Near-Earth Asteroid 2005 WK4

A collage of radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2005 WK4 was generated by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, CA, on August 8th, 2013.

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Broadband Photometry Of The Potentially Asteroid 277475 (2005 WK4) and Corrected 52762 (1998 MT24) Colours.

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The 260 - 580 metre wide asteroid 2005 WK4 will make a close pass (8.1 lunar distances, 0.0207 AU), travelling at 8.38 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th August, 2013 @ 05:02 UT ±00:01.

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

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The 260 - 580 metre wide asteroid 2005 WK4 will make a close pass (49.9 lunar distances, 0.1283 AU), travelling at 6.18 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th August, 2012 @ 00:35 UT ±00:01.

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