Asteroid the of the Great Pyramid of Giza just flew (safely) by Earth

[Admin]

An asteroid about as long as the Great Pyramid of Giza is tall made a "close" approach with Earth on Sunday (July 25), according to NASA calculations.

Asteroid the of the Great Pyramid of Giza just flew (safely) by Earth : Read more

 

[rod]

Okay, this object came by but using the Moon's distance from Earth, nearly 12x farther away (4.5 million km) from Earth than the Moon.

 

[Pogo]

The Earth’s sphere of influence is a bit less than a million km, the asteroid was about 4 1/2 times that. Now, if you said it came within geosynchronous orbit radius, that might be a bit worrisome.