Earth Watch Report  –  Space

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• The Watchers

A newly found asteroid, named 2013 EC will pass just inside the orbit of the Moon on March 4, 2013 at 07:35 UTC.  Asteroid 2013 EC is big about  8-17 meters , just about the size of the space rock that exploded over Russia on February 15, 2013.  It was discovered by the Mt. Lemmon Observatory in Arizona on March 2, 2013.

A newly found asteroid, 2013 EC can be seen in the lower left corner of the red box in this image. Screen capture from Virtual Telescope webcast on 3/3/2013.

2013 EC will come within 396,000 kilometers from Earth, (246,000 miles, or around 1.0 lunar distances, 0.0026 AU), inside the orbit of the Moon. The Moon’s distance from the Earth varies between 363,104 km (225,622…