Near-Earth Asteroid Set to Pass Within Earth-Moon System

Asteroid 2017 AG13 was first observed by Catalina Sky Survey on 2017-01-07.

The newly discovered asteroid will fly safely by Earth on 2017-01-09 at 1247 UTC.

It is going to pass by Earth as close as 0.5 times the distance to the Moon, (130,138 miles or 209,437 km) at a speed (relative to the Earth) of 15.8 km/s. It is estimated to be 15 - 35 meters in size.

Credit: Minor Planet Center http://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=2017%20AG13

NASA/JPL http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2017%20AG13;orb=1

Clips, images credit: ESO, ESA'HUBBLE & NASA/JPL