14 DAY TRIAL // There's been quite a lot of asteroid activity lately, several quite large ones have passed by our planet in recent months, some even crashing down.
The latest, asteroid 2013 LR6, was discovered only a couple of days ago and is passing inside the moon's orbit today.
It was at its closest at 111,000 kilometers (69,000 miles or 0.29x Lunar Distances) at 4:42 UTC / 12:43AM EDT. The asteroid is only 10 meters (30 feet) wide, which is why it was only discovered now.
Obviously, the asteroid is too small and too far away to be of any danger to Earth. It's also too small to be observable with the naked eye or even with amateur equipment.
By now it is moving away from the Earth, but it is far from the last one. In fact, it was the 167th small body discovered in the past week.
