PIA22468: Asteroid 2018 LA
These are the discovery observations of asteroid 2018 LA from the Catalina Sky Survey, taken June 2, 2018. About 8 hours after they were taken, the asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated in the upper atmosphere near Botswana, Africa.
 Target Name:  Asteroid
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) 
 Product Size:  936 x 928 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  University of Arizona 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA22468.tif (1.317 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA22468.jpg (146 kB)  

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These are the discovery observations of asteroid 2018 LA from the Catalina Sky Survey, taken June 2, 2018. About eight hours after these images were taken, the asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere (about 9:44 a.m. PDT, 12:44 p.m. EDT, 16:44 UTC, 6:44 p.m. local Botswana time), and disintegrated in the upper atmosphere near Botswana, Africa.

More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is available at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/CSS-Univ. of Arizona

Image Addition Date:
2018-06-03