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Asteroid 2018 NW

2018 NW is on NASA's Sentry list of objects that cannot yet be fully ruled out as future impactors.

Estimated size

9 m

about the size of a bus

Closest pass on record

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Speed relative to Earth

21.1 km/s

Brightness (H)

27.83

Lower means larger

Past close approaches

Recorded passes within about 20 lunar distances since 1900.

No past close approaches in our records.