Asteroids near Earth on February 27, 2013 via Scott Manley and Armagh Observatory. View larger.
The image above is near-Earth space on February 27, 2013. It shows all the objects within 0.3 AU of Earth – that’s 45 million kilometers – or about 30 million miles – or about one-third of the distance between us and the sun – today. The red oval around Earth represents 3.84 million kilometers, or 10 lunar distances.
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