Sunday, November 6, 2011

2005 YU55 ...Wikipedia ..

Related articles ~ YU55 has 'companions" and we are told to look for FIREBALLS and Meteorites starting tonight!
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2005 YU55, also written as 2005 YU55, is a potentially hazardous asteroid[2] that is 400 meters in diameter.[3][4] It was discovered on 28 December 2005 by Robert S. McMillan at Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak.[1] On November 8 2011 it will pass within 0.85 lunar distances (about 324,600 kilometers, or 201,700 miles)[6] of the Earth. This is the closest known approach by an asteroid with an absolute magnitude this bright since 2010 XC15 (H = 21.4) approached within 0.5 lunar distances in 1976.[5]