A Bus-Sized Asteroid Is About To Swing Past Earth, Closer Than The Moon
An asteroid is going to pilot past Earth tomorrow and , while it wo n’t strike us , it ’s really going to fly moderately close . The bus - sized steroid2018 DV1 , classified as a nigh - Earth asteroid , will slide by about 105,000 km ( 65,000 mile ) from our satellite at about noontide EDT tomorrow , March 2 . For compare , the Moon orbit at 385,000 kilometers ( 240,000 miles ) , mean 2018 DV1 will number more than three times closer ....