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Asteroid 496816 1989 UP

496816 1989 UP is a near-Earth asteroid roughly 300 m across, about the size of a stadium. Its closest recorded pass was on 18 Nov 1938 at 2.0 lunar distances.

Estimated size

300 m

about the size of a stadium

Closest pass on record

2.02 LD

18 Nov 1938

Speed relative to Earth

6.9 km/s

Brightness (H)

20.54

Lower means larger