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Originally Posted by Karlsson
The closest known asteroid is currently 2007 TU24, see:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...720#post290720
It comes closest on 29 Jan at 1.44 times the distance between the Moon and Earth - anything passing between the Moon and Earth is therefore unlikely to be an asteroid - thank heavens... 
Probably a man-made object.... |
Hi Karlsson,
Found an interesting article (Flying Rocks Everywhere!) in an old 'Astronomy 2003' yearbook about Near Earth Asteroids.
There's a paragraph:
Near Earth Asteroids. If you have any doubt why mankind needs to closely monitor these objects, the case of 1994 XM1 is worth quoting. On December 9, 1994 this object came within 70,000 kilometers of the Earth, or only one fifth of the distance to the Moon!
A pretty interesting article, but I still think, as you said, what I saw was a man-made satellite.