2014 EC

2014 EC is an Apollo asteroid that passed within 48,000 miles (77,000 km) of Earth in early March 2014.^[1] This was six times closer to the Earth than the Moon.^[2] It was estimated to be about 10 meters(30 feet) across.^[1]

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Small Solar System bodies

Minor planets

Designation Groups Moons Meanings of names Pronunciation of names

Asteroids	Aten asteroid Asteroid belt Families Jupiter Trojans Near-Earth Spectral types

Distant minor planets	Centaurs Damocloids Neptune trojans Trans-Neptunian objects Detached Kuiper belt Oort cloud Scattered disc

Comets

Meteoroids

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Asteroid groups and families
Asteroid moons
Binary asteroids
Minor planets

2014 in space

Space probes	Chang'e 5-T1 (Moon mission launched) Hayabusa 2 PROCYON (asteroid mission launched) Venus Express (Venus mission ends) Dawn (approaches 1 Ceres) Rosetta/Philae (orbits/landing 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko)

Impact events	2014 AA impact 2014 Ontario fireball

Supernovae	SN 2014J

Notable comets	C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) (Mars close approach) C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden) C/2014 E2 (Jacques) C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

NEOs	Asteroid close approaches 2000 EM26 (163132) 2002 CU11 (388188) 2006 DP14 2007 VK184 (410777) 2009 FD 2009 RR 2009 WM1 2014 AF5 2014 DX110 2014 EC 2014 HQ124 2014 LY21 2014 OO6 2014 RC 2014 SC324 2014 XL7

Exoplanets	51 Eridani b Gliese 15 Ab Gliese 180 c Gliese 682 c Gliese 832 c HIP 116454 b Kapteyn b Kepler-186f Kepler-296e Kepler-296f Kepler-298d Kepler-419b Kepler-419c Kepler-421b GU Piscium b

Discoveries	Rings of Chariklo 2012 VP113 2013 FY27 C/2014 E2 (Jacques) 2014 OL339 (quasi-satellite of Earth)

Deep space rendezvous	MAVEN (Mars orbit injection) Mars Orbiter Mission (Mars orbit injection)

Category:2013 in space — Category:2014 in space — Category:2015 in space

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