ASTEROID FLYBY: CLOSE APPROACH

 Newly-discovered asteroid 2011 CA7 is going to fly past Earth on Feb. 9th - 10th only 63,000 miles away, or 1/4th the distance to the Moon. At closest approach around 1700 UT, the VW-Bug-sized space rock will zip through the constellation Orion glowing like a 17th magnitude star.




 Link:

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2011%20CA7&orb=1