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Asteroid 2018 RW

2018 RW is a near-Earth asteroid roughly 3 m across, about the size of a car. Its closest recorded pass was on 21 Jun 1938 at 0.3 lunar distances.

Estimated size

3 m

about the size of a car

Closest pass on record

0.27 LD

21 Jun 1938

Speed relative to Earth

6.4 km/s

Brightness (H)

30.6

Lower means larger