Talk:List of asteroid close approaches to Earth

What is a record-setting asteroid?
What is a record-setting asteroid and how will Wikipedia define the list(s)? Is it only asteroids/meteoroids that set a new record such as being the closest,  being the very early on, and  being the smallest (based on absolute magnitude)? Is an object like  worthy of mention since it technically does not set any new close-approach record? -- Kheider (talk) 19:39, 30 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I do not get how some of these are record-setting. It seems to me that it would be best to take out "record-setting" and list close approaches by (1) date, (2) distance, and (3) size.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:17, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Timeline
The timeline section is confusing. First, the article is about record-setting close approaches. Are these supposed to be approaches that were closer than any previously known approach? It doesn't seem to be that way. Are they approaches that were larger than previous ones? Not clear. Secondly, the timeline is in reverse chronological order, which doesn't make sense. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:08, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

The "small asteroids" table doesn't make sense either. For instance, the table is in order by how close the approach was. But there was one of 20,400 km in Nov 2009 but a 34,000 km one is listed in Feb 2013. Why is this second one listed - it didn't break the record for close approach. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:15, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Proposed name change
I propose that "record-setting" be removed from the title and the article just list close approaches. What sets a record is ambiguous, because we are talking about both distance and size. Also, a timeline doesn't make sense as far as record breaking. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 18:54, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support -- Kheider (talk) 19:50, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Alan G. Archer (talk) 21:18, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

✅ Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:44, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I've updated the article's title in 'Template: Asteroids,' 'Category:Radar-imaged asteroids.' and nine articles. Alan G. Archer (talk) 05:25, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

reorganization?
I'm wondering if the tables need to be reorganized. Perhaps have a list of close approaches (leave ones that graze or impact in their own tables). Have it listed in chronological order, but make it a sortable table so the reader could sort by the size or distance columns and look at record breakers. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 16:28, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

2013 LR6
What about the newly discovered 2013 LR6, which passed nearby June 8, 2013? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 00:38, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 2013 LR6 (~10 meters in diameter) does not seem to set any new records. Do we want to mention every 10 meter rock that passes inside the orbit of the moon? -- Kheider (talk) 01:01, 9 June 2013 (UTC)


 * The title of the article is current close approaches, not records. Ans since there are at least two factors (size and distance), what constitutes a record may be ambiguous.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:24, 9 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Where does the article state current close approaches? An object such as 2012 KP24 is the closest approach of a non-impacting object of its size. 2013 LR6 is easily bested by 2011 MD. So do we want an ever expanding list of every 10 meter rock that passes inside the orbit of the moon? More and more of those 10 meter rocks will quickly be discovered as surveys become ever more sensitive. -- Kheider (talk) 01:56, 9 June 2013 (UTC)


 * I left out part of what I intended to type, I meant: "The title of the article is currently about close approaches, not records." The title of the article used to be about records; now it is not.    Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:04, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Edit request - Please add 2014 HQ124
There will be a live broadcast on 5 June 2014 of the asteroid 2014 HQ124. This may please be added by an interested editor. AshLin (talk) 02:28, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅. See List of asteroid close approaches to Earth -- Kheider (talk) 17:13, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, AshLin (talk) 11:09, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

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what is the closest comet to earth
what is the closest comet or metor to earth is it going to hit earth.
 * Every year, around 30 asteroids hit the earth with enough force to be detected by sensors designed to monitor detonation of nuclear devices, however usually the impact is over water or unpopulated areas so there is no noticeable effect. Occasionally however they hit a built up area and cause injuries and damage to buildings. If you are worried about asteroids or comets large enough to cause global devastation, please be reassured we believe we have discovered over 90% of the objects of that size and we don't know of any that are due to impact earth within the next 100 years. Finally please note that as stated at the top of this page "This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the List of asteroid close approaches to Earth article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject." However I hope this helps. Rafflesgluft (talk) 19:43, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Bar Graph Unclear and/or Incorrect
Rafflesgluft (talk) 21:02, 9 July 2018 (UTC) It is not clear to me what the bar graph at the start of the article is trying to show. It seems to be trying to show how many asteroids were in opposition when they were discovered. The extent of opposition is not defined: does it mean anywhere on the night side of the planet i.e. between 90 and 270 degrees elongation or does it mean at or close to 180 degrees, if so how close? For any definition of opposition, this data seems to be wrong because notable asteroid 99942 Apophis (2004 MN4) was discovered at just 55.7 degrees elongation. Yet the graph records that during 2004, all close approach asteroids were discovered in opposition. Therefore this data is either incorrect, or more likely showing something completely different. As no references are given for the graph itself, it's not clear where the data has come from. Does anybody understand what this graph is showing?

Finally, for non-technical readers this graph will certainly be hard to understand since the term "opposition" is not in common usage. I wonder if it might be better to represent this data by showing the distribution of angles (and ranges?) that asteroids were discovered at. Comments welcome.

Removing from "Largest per year" list
Hi,

I'm about to remove from the "Largest per year" list. There are a couple of reasons.

The introductory paragraph says "From the lists in the first section, these are the largest known asteroids per year that approach Earth within one LD". However firstly this asteroid is not contained in the lists in the first section, and secondly it isn't predicted to come within 1 LD of earth in the year 2020. It looks as though a mistake has been made when reading the data in the given reference, because the object is predicted to come close to the moon in 2020, but not Earth. In fact the reference given doesn't indicate a close approach to Earth that year at all. This is probably partly due to the high uncertainty (7). However, looking at a second source (NEODyS ), which calculates close approaches using an independent method, we can see that the predicted nominal closest approach distance is 0.0665144 AU i.e. 995 thousand km, not within 1LD.

We can double check this by looking at the NASA JPL close approaches page. If you search for Future Only objects with nominal distance < 1 LD and no H limit, this asteroid does not appear in the list, neither does anything else for the year 2020.

For reference here is the line I am about to delete:

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 * 2020 || 2020-09-01 || || align="center"|78.9 ||align="center"|0.21 ||align="center"|15–49 meters ||align="center"|25.7

Rafflesgluft (talk) 18:12, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

UPDATE: has reappeared in the NASA JPL NEOS list, although it still has uncertainty 7. I am therefore planning to re-add it, but with a note on the uncertainty. Similarly, there are now two predicted close approaches in 2032, including, which has been re-observed and now has uncertainty zero. Rafflesgluft (talk) 13:23, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

2018 RY1
Added to list of closest asteroids per year. is due to approach Earth within 1LD in 2027. Note however the orbit model is highly uncertain (uncertainty 8) at the time of writing. Therefore if you are viewing this talk page and have time to check if there have been any further observations of that have updated its orbit, please go ahead, and update the list with the new data. Currently has:

Date/time: 2027-Oct-15 21:44, uncertainty 1 day, 22 hours 7 minutes

Last observation: 2018-09-13

It will be brighter than magnitude 23 until the end of September 2018 so it is possible further observations will be made in the near future. If not, the next close approach is in 2021, when it will be brighter than magnitude 23 from August 9th through till Oct 15th 2021

Rafflesgluft (talk) 13:27, 14 September 2018 (UTC)


 * looks like I should have waited a bit longer before adding this, has already been updated, but with a nominal distance > 1LD. The minimum is still < 1LD though (about 0.3LD) and uncertainty still 8 so will not delete it from the list just yet as further refinements may well return the nominal value to < 1LD. It's seems odd that the uncertainty is so high after a whole week of observations! Rafflesgluft (talk) 17:59, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * further observations are predicting the 2027 encounter further away from earth, will now delete this row from the table.... now deleted. For reference deleted list item:

Rafflesgluft (talk) 19:08, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * 2027 || bgcolor="#79d8ff" | 2027-10-15 || bgcolor="#79d8ff" | 2018-09-07 || bgcolor="#79d8ff" | || bgcolor="#79d8ff" align="center"|203.1 || bgcolor="#79d8ff" align="center"|0.53 || bgcolor="#79d8ff" align="center"|35-79 || bgcolor="#79d8ff" align="center"|24.4
 * 2027 || bgcolor="#79d8ff" | 2027-10-15 || bgcolor="#79d8ff" | 2018-09-07 || bgcolor="#79d8ff" | || bgcolor="#79d8ff" align="center"|203.1 || bgcolor="#79d8ff" align="center"|0.53 || bgcolor="#79d8ff" align="center"|35-79 || bgcolor="#79d8ff" align="center"|24.4

2008 DB close approach 2032
I have just added the 2032 close approach of 2008 DB. This is listed in the NASA JPL NEOS page if you search for all future approaches closer than 1LD. However it is missing from the close approach data for the asteroid itself, which instead only lists the close approach of the asteroid to the moon. The close approach to the moon listed on the close approach page has a different close approach distance to that listed on the NEOs close approaches page. To double check what is going on, I got the ephemeris from Horizons and can see that there is indeed a close approach to Earth on that day. I have therefore added it to the table. Below is the ephemeris (delta column is the close approach distance, which is in AU):

******************************************************************************* Ephemeris / WWW_USER Tue Dec 24 09:04:20 2019 Pasadena, USA     / Horizons ******************************************************************************* Target body name: (2008 DB)                      {source: JPL#16} Center body name: Earth (399)                    {source: DE431} Center-site name: GEOCENTRIC ******************************************************************************* Start time     : A.D. 2032-Aug-14 14:45:00.0000 UT       Stop  time      : A.D. 2032-Aug-14 15:00:00.0000 UT       Step-size       : 1 minutes ******************************************************************************************************* Date__(UT)__HR:MN    R.A._(ICRF/J2000.0)_DEC  APmag            delta      deldot    S-O-T /r    S-T-O ******************************************************************************************************* $$SOE 2032-Aug-14 14:45    03 13 13.43 -53 10 35.3  12.96 0.00083386423011  -0.2131961 104.8814 /L  75.0733 2032-Aug-14 14:46    03 14 34.99 -53 11 12.8  12.96 0.00083378369805  -0.1883957 104.6792 /L  75.2755 2032-Aug-14 14:47    03 15 56.61 -53 11 46.9  12.97 0.00083371311393  -0.1635884 104.4770 /L  75.4777 2032-Aug-14 14:48    03 17 18.28 -53 12 17.4  12.98 0.00083365248035  -0.1387751 104.2747 /L  75.6799 2032-Aug-14 14:49    03 18 39.98 -53 12 44.5  12.98 0.00083360179949  -0.1139568 104.0724 /L  75.8821 2032-Aug-14 14:50    03 20 01.72 -53 13 08.1  12.99 0.00083356107323  -0.0891343 103.8701 /L  76.0844 2032-Aug-14 14:51    03 21 23.50 -53 13 28.2  13.00 0.00083353030303  -0.0643085 103.6678 /L  76.2867 2032-Aug-14 14:52    03 22 45.29 -53 13 44.8  13.00 0.00083350949003  -0.0394804 103.4654 /L  76.4890 2032-Aug-14 14:53    03 24 07.11 -53 13 57.9  13.01 0.00083349863499  -0.0146508 103.2631 /L  76.6914 2032-Aug-14 14:54    03 25 28.94 -53 14 07.5  13.02 0.00083349773829   0.0101792 103.0607 /L  76.8937 2032-Aug-14 14:55    03 26 50.77 -53 14 13.6  13.02 0.00083350679997   0.0350089 102.8583 /L  77.0960 2032-Aug-14 14:56    03 28 12.61 -53 14 16.2  13.03 0.00083352581969   0.0598374 102.6560 /L  77.2984 2032-Aug-14 14:57    03 29 34.44 -53 14 15.3  13.04 0.00083355479675   0.0846636 102.4536 /L  77.5007 2032-Aug-14 14:58    03 30 56.27 -53 14 10.9  13.05 0.00083359373010   0.1094867 102.2513 /L  77.7030 2032-Aug-14 14:59    03 32 18.08 -53 14 03.0  13.05 0.00083364261829   0.1343058 102.0489 /L  77.9053 2032-Aug-14 15:00    03 33 39.87 -53 13 51.6  13.06 0.00083370145956   0.1591200 101.8466 /L  78.1075 $$EOE *******************************************************************************************************

Rafflesgluft (talk) 17:28, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Edit Request: (7482) 1994 PC1 will be very close from the earth in 18 January 2022
Should anyone add the 1994 PC1 asteroid ? It will pass over (5x Lunar Distance) from the earth in 18 January 2022. SLeFiNho (talk) 09:49, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Do you have a source?Maria Gemmi (talk) 12:03, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

2022 EB5
Can someone please fix the distance from Earth? I only copy-pasted it from 2018 LA. Thank you! 72.203.63.234 (talk) 04:25, 3 April 2022 (UTC)