The Asteroid Set to Make a Close Encounter with the Earth on Friday Has a Moon (Watch), NASA “New radar data obtained by NASA shows Asteroid 1998 QE2 has a moon. The asteroid will get no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. The new radar data was obtained on May 29th when the asteroid was about […]