You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: Fact of the day #7: June 14 2002: Asteroid’s near-miss with EarthView the full contexteverittdmickey (73)in #news • 7 years ago If it was too small to escape detection how did they detect it?
They did detect it a few days after it reached it closest point. The original data about the discovery is here:
http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K02/K02M14.html
so they detected it as it was going away.
that's useful.
Haha, I do agree that that is not really reassuring for next events.
Odd that NASA and the UN have discouraged private space development isn't it?