Asteroid 2020 JJ Sneaks Past Satellites In One Of Closest Passes By Earth

A previously unseen asteroid the size of a truck flew about 4,350 miles over the Pacific Ocean on Monday, May 4, 2020, making it one of the closest passes by our planet on record.

Asteroid 2020 JJ is a member of the Eos family, the largest asteroid family of the outer main belt consisting or nearly 10,000 asteroids. It is a near-Earth object of the Apollo group. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.9-2.1 au once every one year and ten months (675 days; semi-major axis of 1.51 au). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.42 and an inclination of 11 degrees with respect to the eclipti