NASA-JPL Released Episode 5 Catch a Falling Star of Season Two of 'On a Mission' Podcast Targets Asteroids

This artist's concept shows a broken-up asteroid.
Image: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

Today[2019-11-05] NASA-JPL released Episode 5 "Catch a Falling Star" of Season Two of 'On a Mission' Podcast Targets Asteroids. "Why are missions like OSIRIS-REx bringing pieces of an asteroid back home?" This is the 5th of a 10-episode podcast host by Leslie Mullen. New episodes will be released weekly. For more information, see "Season Two of 'On a Mission' Podcast Targets Asteroids"[NASA JPL press release].

The ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Center has released its November Newsletter

The ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Center has released its November Newsletter, which can be read here.(pdf download)

This artist's concept shows a broken-up asteroid.
Image: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Table "Known-(with reasonably low uncertainty)-NEO-Earth-Close-Approaches-Less-Than-10LD(Nominal_Dist)-as-of-2019-11-03a" Has been updated.

If  the Earth was the size of a basketball  how far would the Moon [and the NEO Earth Close Approaches  be]?  Here is a spreadsheet of 9281 Close Approaches Less Than 10LD (Nominal_Dist) as of 2019 11-03a   [if the Earth was the size of a Basketball - with a
  radius of 12.0275 CM(4.73523622 inches)]

NEO-Earth-Close-Approaches by number of Earth radii from 2010-January-01 to 2021-January-01

If  the Earth was the size of a basketball  how far would the Moon [and the NEO Earth Close Approaches  be]? in feet 2010-January-01 to 2021-January-01

Known NEO Earth Close Approaches <= Geosynchronous orbit
From 2004-Mar-01 to 2029-May-01
 (as of 2019-11-30)

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Data from the NSA-JPL SBDB Close-Approach Data API https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/cad.api?dist-max=11LD&date-min=1900-01-01&date-max=2200-12-31&fullname=true&sort=dist

NEO Made a Close Flyby on Halloween Wow it was ~ 4.60 (Metaphorical) inches From a Basketball Size Earth

A 1  to 7 meters NEO made a close approache  on Halloween  it was ~ 4.60 (Metaphorical) Inches from a Basketball Size Earth. This asteroid discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey  and given the observer-assigned temporary designation. C0PPEV1(Now  2019 UN13) So far there is 18 observations from four observing stations over 3.7 hours. This object has gone out of range telescopes so new observations  runs will have wait until  2019 UN13 comes back in range(if ever).

If  the Earth was the size of a basketball  how far would the Moon [and the NEO Earth Close Approaches  be]? 

  Given the fact it was  the 2nd closest approache it is making buzz online ---by the way  it is too small to do anything.

In about 45 minutes from now (now = 10/31/19 7:00 am PDT), newly-discovered #asteroid C0PPEV1 will pass only 6200 km above Earth's surface. 45 minutes ago it was passing through Earth's shadow.
This is much closer than our geostationary satellites. https://t.co/q4qKuaUHjb pic.twitter.com/jsG2kaBY4O

— Tony Dunn (@tony873004) October 31, 2019

Newly-discovered #asteroid C0PPEV1 paid a heavy price for almost striking Earth this morning.
Earth's gravity bent its trajectory, sending its aphelion out to the asteroid belt.https://t.co/q4qKuaUHjb pic.twitter.com/vzx5zpxGBG

— Tony Dunn (@tony873004) October 31, 2019

From Bill Gray: C0PPEV1 = near-miss
this object is about to come _very_ close to us, perigee at 12520 +/- 70 km from the geocenter :https://t.co/5EoksMRcsg

People in Asia and Australia might be able to get
some astrometry on it over the next hour or two.

— Asteroid Initiatives (@AsteroidEnergy) October 31, 2019

A near-Earth asteroid, identified as C0PPEV1, was spotted early Thursday by the Catalina Sky Survey, based in Arizona. It extremely close, 6,200 km above Africa at 15:45 UTC.https://t.co/Vrqjx6T3QX

— Tom Ruen (@Tom_Ruen) October 31, 2019

Scout: NEOCP Hazard Assessment of C0PPEV1 archive
Pseudo-MPEC for C0PPEV1 - Project Pluto ..
Spooky Halloween asteroid flyby one of the closest near misses ever seen A big space boulder scopes out the trick-or-treating situation here on Earth.(Cnet)
Earth Impact Effects Program

The Discovery of 2019 RU3.

This artist's concept shows a broken-up asteroid.
Image: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

Today (for October 31, 2019) Dr. Al Grauer reports on the podcast Travelers In The Night (562-Monster Space Rock) On his teammate at Catalina Sky Survey, Hannes Gröller, discovery of 2019 RU3. (also see 562-Additional Information-Monster Space Rock)

A list of 9257 Known NEO Earth Close Approaches Less-Than 10LD (Nominal_Dist) as of 2019-10-30

Here is a list of 9,257 Known NEO Earth Close Approaches Less-Than 10LD (Nominal_Dist) as of 2019-10-30.

If  the Earth was the size of a basketball  how far would the Moon [and the NEO Earth Close Approaches  be]? 
Here is a  spreadsheet  [if the Earth was the size of a Basketball -
 Radius 12.0275 CM(4.73523622 inches)]

 Data from the SBDB Close-Approach Data API https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/cad.api?dist-max=25LD&date-min=1900-01-01&date-max=2200-12-31&fullname=true&sort=date

NASA-JPL Released Episode 4 [Deflecting Disaster] of Season Two of 'On a Mission' Podcast Targets Asteroids

This artist's concept shows a broken-up asteroid.
Image: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

Today[2019-10-29] NASA-JPL released Episode 4 [Deflecting Disaster] of  Season Two of 'On a Mission' Podcast Targets Asteroids. "Unlike the dinosaurs, we have a space program. There are many ways we could steer an asteroid off its path towards Earth.? " This is the 4th of a 10-episode podcast host by Leslie Mullen. New episodes will be released weekly. For more information, see "Season Two of 'On a Mission' Podcast Targets Asteroids"[NASA JPL press release].

The 2019 UB8 2019-10-29 Flyby! How Close? Is Close?

(2019 UB8) approximate (0.50 LD) flyby distance from Earth
This image adapted by Steven M Tilley from the image the original
Earth-Moon.png by Nickshanks
 under licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license

Tonight(2019-Oct-28/29) the NEO 2019 UB8 (4.4 m - 9.7 m) will do a flyby(A.K.A NEO Earth Close Approaches) of a Nominal Distance of 0.50 LD (0.00127 AU) ~191,000 KM (~ 119,000 miles). Sorting by nominal distance, this close approach is listed in the top 270 of 22,500+ entries in JPL's close approach database. (As of 2019-Oct-28) Flybys within one LD are quite common from what we "know" NEOs flybys within one LD a few times every week or so.

If  the Earth was the size of a basketball  how far would the Moon be?

What is Close

Close is a relative term. "Close" to a major sports venue is not the same as "close" to the ER. If one were to think of a basketball-size Earth, it may in understanding what is "close" and what is "far." In this, basketball-size Earth system, the ISS would be at ~0.76 CM (0.3 inches); we had NEO Flybys at 10.35 CM (4.1 inches) [ 2011 CQ1 on 2011-Feb-04] before. The Moon would range from ~673.41 CM (~22.0 Ft) to ~753.81 CM (~24.7 Ft). 2019 UB8 will be ~347.62 CM (~11.4 Ft) from the basketball. To see 2019 UB8 tonight, check out the Virtual Telescope Project.