2002 MN
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 2002 MN is the provisional designation given to a 73-meter Apollo near-Earth asteroid that on 14 June 2002 passed Earth at a distance of Script error: No such module "convert".,[1] about one third the distance to the Moon (0.3 LD).[2] The close approach was second only to the Earth approach by the 10-meter asteroid 1994 XM1.[2] 2002 MN was discovered on 17 June 2002, three days after closest approach.[3] Its mass and relative velocity were in the same general range as the object ascribed to the Tunguska event of 1908, which leveled over Script error: No such module "convert". of trees in Siberia.
2002 MN was estimated to have a 1 in 360,000 chance of Earth impact sometime after 2070,[4] but further observations in July 2024[5] ruled this out, and the object was removed from the risk list.
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