The 1400 metre wide asteroid 1989 VA will make a close pass (64.0 lunar distances, 0.1644 AU), travelling at 17.02 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th November, 2012 @ 09:40 UT ±00:01.
The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
(99907) 1989 VA is an Aten asteroid located in Venus' zone of influence that has frequent close encounters with the Earth. It was discovered on 2 November 1989 by C. S., E. M. Shoemaker and David H. Levy at Mount Palomar and was the eighth Aten asteroid discovered. Read more