[NorthMountain]

flew past Earth at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers, or a little under five times the distance between the Moon and Earth).

Your puny terrestrial optical telescopes will avail you nothing at that distance.

Now ... if you want to send a small spacecraft, with a nice suite of imaging and spectroscopic instruments on board, to pay it an up close visit ... I might be on board with you on that endeavor.

[GingisK]

I don't have any interest in rocks that far away. Knowledge of them serves no useful purpose, especially when that knowledge lacks detail in all fields of endeavor.

The only thing I want to know about those things is their probability of hitting Washington DC during the State of the Union Address.

But, be happy with those pixelated images of sandy-looking turds.