Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-02-10 07:13:46 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 4CC06DC725ABEA8AE64F6400B3F0B37D9DD73E641DC4C18654FDB961E5134EA9
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The asteroid, 2005 YY128, will make several approaches in the next 150 years ranging in distance from 2.8 million (12 times further away than the moon) to 16.4 million miles. Its exact size is unknown. https://www.spacereference.org/asteroid/199145-2005-yy128 https://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/2011AG5/2011AG5.2023.goldstone.planning.html Orbits are trajectories, not physical objects that can be impacted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_object?wprov=sfti1
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