2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope

[admin]

The 2,000-foot-wide asteroid 2013 NK4 just made its closest approach to Earth in recorded history, sailing by at about eight lunar distances. You can still see the massive rock with a backyard telescope.

2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope : Read more

 

[thunderbolt]

As this is a science site, could you please use the metric system in your articles. This is an article about space. Scientists that study space use the metric system.

 

[GreatGooglyMoogly]

Couldn't agree more on the suggestion to use the modern metric system. Nothing is more cringeworthy IMHO than a science site, or science related program using arcane and folksy units of measure in the 21st century, on a metric planet save for one intransigent nation.