Asteroid 2010 GA6 flyby - to Miss Earth on 8th/9th April

A newly discovered asteroid, 2010 GA6, will fly by Earth this Thursday at 23:06 U.T.C. i.e. Friday, 9 April 2010, 04:36:00 a.m. IST. This Asteroid would miss us by about 359,000 kilometers (223,000 miles) which is about 9/10ths the distance to the moon. The size of the asteroid is reported to be approximately 22 meters (71 feet) wide. This object was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey, Tucson, Az. Compiled by N.Sri Raghunandan Kumar For More Details visit www.ournewplanets.com