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Asteroid 2008 JL3

2008 JL3 is on NASA's Sentry list of objects that cannot yet be fully ruled out as future impactors.

Estimated size

29 m

about the size of a house

Closest pass on record

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Speed relative to Earth

8.4 km/s

Brightness (H)

25.31

Lower means larger

Past close approaches

Recorded passes within about 20 lunar distances since 1900.

No past close approaches in our records.