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Asteroid 884793 2017 VR12

884793 2017 VR12 is a near-Earth asteroid roughly 300 m across, about the size of a stadium. Its closest recorded pass was on 7 Mar 2018 at 3.8 lunar distances.

Estimated size

300 m

about the size of a stadium

Closest pass on record

3.76 LD

7 Mar 2018

Speed relative to Earth

6.4 km/s

Brightness (H)

20.61

Lower means larger