Discovery News points us to Pasquale Tricario’s animations of today’s 2011MD asteroid that is passing dangerously close to the earth, even closer than the GPS satellite orbits.
“It is interesting to note that [2011 MD] will come closer than the GPS satellites, and also that it comes from the northern hemisphere, passes over the Earth’s south pole, and then is deflected so strongly that leaves the Earth back in the northern hemisphere,” Tricarico says on his website.
Check out his website for some more impressive animations like the one below.
When Asteroid ‘2011 MD’ Zips Past Earth : Animation : Discovery News.
