za419 t1_jdo52fp wrote
Reply to comment by Peat02 in [NASA on Twitter] Newly-discovered asteroid 2023 DZ2 will pass Earth more than 100,000 miles (161,000 km) away–about half the distance to the Moon–making its close approach at 3:51 p.m. EDT (12:51 p.m. PDT) by ICumCoffee
We'd have to do some orbital mechanics on this one. Most things in the solar system are roughly coplanar on the ecliptic, so the real shape is probably a section of the sphere a few degrees wide.
Or we could probably just guess and multiply the space available by a substantial number, because even that section is going to be pretty tall compared to the Earth. Space is big.
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