Abstract: We present computing methods that allow us to study the behaviour of the dynamically interesting potentially dangerous asteroid 2012 DA14. Using the freely available ORBFIT software, we can ...

In 2013, Earth was buzzed by an asteroid approximately 100 feet wide, DA14, which passed just 17,500 miles above our planet. The asteroid was discovered just a year before its close encounter with ...

An April 2021 event demonstrated how often close encounters can occur when a tiny 4-meter asteroid flew within 19,800 ...

Also today, a 50 metre-wide asteroid called 2012 DA14 is zipping past Earth inside the orbit of some man-made satellites, marking the closest shave on record for an asteroid of that size.