2013 EC is a
near-Earth asteroid that passed
Earth
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just inside the orbit of the
Moon
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, with its closest approach on March 4, 2013 at 07:35 UTC. 2013 EC was discovered by the
Mount Lemmon Observatory
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in
Arizona
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,
United States
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, on March 2, 2013. Asteroid 2013 EC is estimated to be equal in size to the
Chelyabinsk meteor that impacted on February 15, 2013. Its measurement is about wide.
International Business Times: Newly Discovered Asteroid 2013 EC Makes Near-Earth Flyby on March 4
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2013 EC was one of four asteroids that passed in the vicinity of Earth during one week in early March 2013.
See also
*List of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2013
Below is the list of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2013. This was the year of the Chelyabinsk impact, in addition to the other NEO flybys
Timeline of known close approaches less than one lunar distance from Earth in 2013
A list of know ...
*Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) was a program run by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, surveying the sky for near-Earth objects. NEAT was conducted from December 1995 until April 2007, at GEODSS on Hawaii (Haleakala-NEAT; 566), as we ...
*List of Near-Earth asteroids by distance from Sun
This list contains many notable near-Earth asteroids organised by their average distance from the Sun, and includes the planets
A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory o ...
*List of asteroid close approaches to Earth
This is a list of examples where an asteroid or meteoroid travels close to the Earth. Some are regarded as potentially hazardous objects if they are estimated to be large enough to cause regional devastation.
Near-Earth object detection techno ...
* 2012 DA14
*99942 Apophis
99942 Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid and potentially hazardous asteroid with a diameter of that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 when initial observations indicated a probability up to 2.7% that it would hit Earth on April&nb ...
* 2013 ET
* 2013 PJ10
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