Brett is curious about emerging aerospace technologies, alternative launch concepts, military space developments and uncrewed aircraft systems. Brett's work has appeared on Scientific American, The War Zone, Popular Science, the History Channel, Science Discovery and more.
on Feb. 2, 2024 at a safe distance of 1.8 million miles , about 7.5 times farther than the Earth-moon distance. While there was no risk of the space rock harming our planet, scientists with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used the sophisticated Goldstone Solar System Radar to produce a series of images of the
The new observations helped nail down the asteroid's size, as it had been too far away for most planetary radar systems to image sufficiently until this month's close pass. at its farthest. 2008 OS7 is designated as"potentially hazardous" due to its size and how close to Earth it passes, but it won't come this close to our planet for another 200 years, JPL wrote in a
When it was first discovered in 2008 during a routine search for near-Earth objects , scientists estimated asteroid 2008 OS7 to be around 650 to 1,640 feet wide. Asteroid 2008 OS7 appears as a white dot on a starry background in this image by Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project in Ceccano, Italy taken during the close pass on Feb. 2, 2024.Using JPL's radar observations on Feb. 2, scientists found that the asteroid is significantly smaller than those initial estimates; they now believe it to be around 500 to 650 feet across.
Brett is curious about emerging aerospace technologies, alternative launch concepts, military space developments and uncrewed aircraft systems. Brett's work has appeared on Scientific American, The War Zone, Popular Science, the History Channel, Science Discovery and more. Brett has English degrees from Clemson University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In his free time, Brett enjoys skywatching throughout the dark skies of the Appalachian mountains.
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