Guest blog by Dr Mark Gallaway, Bayfordbury Observatory
For those of you who may have been alarmed to see the fiery image of the “potentially hazardous” asteroid, known as 2000 EM26, on The Guardian website, you will be pleased to hear that this 270 metre-wide rock passed safely by beyond the orbit of the moon today – just as predicted by astronomers.![]() |
Asteroid 2000 EM26 orbit diagram. Image from Wikimedia Commons courtesy of NASA/JPL |
At the University of Hertfordshire’s Bayfordbury Observatory, we keep an eye on these large rocks as part of an on-going programme to monitor ‘Near Earth Objects’ (NEO).
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