Earth to get very close look at a huge asteroid

So. November 9th?

 

So back in 1976, an asteroid passed halfway between us and the moon? And no one knew about it until last year? Or did I read that wrong?

 

just because it was within 0.5 lunar distances, doesn't necessarily mean it passed between the earth and the moon.

 

No he meant, how did we just discover this? It's been close to 40 years.

 

I understand that. I was using the moon as perspective.

Exactly. In an astronomical sense, we were grazed, but just found out about it. Kinda scary, but that was 1976. At least we have a lot more eyes to the skys these days.

 

The article states November 8th.


Whoops, then later on it states November 9th.