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Asteroid 2017 BM3

2017 BM3 is a near-Earth asteroid roughly 100 m across, about the size of a football pitch. Its closest recorded pass was on 9 Feb 1924 at 3.7 lunar distances.

Estimated size

100 m

about the size of a football pitch

Closest pass on record

3.73 LD

9 Feb 1924

Speed relative to Earth

9.2 km/s

Brightness (H)

23

Lower means larger