
Jan. 26th – The Closest An Asteroid Will Pass Us Till 2027
On January 26th keep your eye to the sky to catch the closest an asteroid will pass Earth until the year 2027. It’s called 2004 BL86, an asteroid about a third of a mile wide, and it travels at a speed of 35,000 miles an hour. As it zips along it’s orbital path — an orbit lasting about 1.84 Earth years — it will eventually pass by the Earth, getting as close as 745,000 miles away. That might sound pretty far away but it’s about three times the distance from the Earth to the