Asteroid Will Pass Within 25,000 Miles of Earth

Nato announces new discoveries. There is a newly discovered small asteroid will pass very close to Earth on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. The estimated 60-foot asteroid will approximately approach 25,000 miles over New Zealand. The distance will be about one tenth from the Earth and the moon.  The asteroid will not hit the Earth as it will just pass underneath our satellite so Earth is safe from any possible hit.

The asteroid was named 2014 RC. It was firstly discovered by an astronomer in Arizona named Catalina Sky on the night of August 31. The rock was  independently detected the next night by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope, sited on the summit of Haleakalā on Maui, Hawaii.

The asteroid's obvious magnitude at that time. Because of the smaller size of the asteroid, it  will not be seen by normal eye-sighting, however  amateur astronomers with might see it using  small telescopes. They might glimpse of the fast-moving appearance of this near-Earth asteroid.

While this heavenly object approaches near Earth ones in decades, it does not appear to give any threat to Earth or satellites as it will just safely passes beneath us, it its close approach makes a good chance for researchers to study and observe more about asteroids.