is a sub-kilometer B-type near-Earth asteroid that belongs to the Apollo group. It is also a potentially hazardous asteroid. The asteroid measures approximately 300 meters in diameter. It has a Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance (MOID) from the Earth of . Based on limited observations, the asteroid may have a rotation period of 2.5 hours.
It passed at a nominal distance of from the Moon and from Earth on 7 January 2002.
Discovery The asteroid was small enough to only be discovered after a close flyby on 26 December 2001 by NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program (NEAT).Huge Asteroid Narrowly Misses Earth
The asteroid came within 830,000 kilometres from Earthapproximately twice the distance to the Moonon 7 January. Similarly close flybys from other -sized asteroids happen about once per year, and one impacts Earth about once every 20,000 to 30,000 years.
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