dicht vorbei gerast an - What is the English translation? English translators help technical English translators with the translation of dicht vorbei gerast an

Conges terminology question

207 months ago

etrans45 (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	German > English
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	dicht vorbei gerast an
Context:	Ein neu entdeckter Asteroid ist dicht an der Erde vorbei gerast
Keywords:	flashed by closely?

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207 months ago

Michael Murnane (BA, DipTransIoLET) wrote:

A newly discovered asteroid has hurtled past in close proximity to Earth

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207 months ago

Prabir Mudaliar wrote:

near miss

My comment:

regardless of literal translation, this is the term normally used.

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207 months ago

Prabir Mudaliar wrote:

Heike Garisch - I totally agree with your observation. But such is the nature of the English language.No logic at all!

207 months ago

Joachim Kehr wrote:

sped close by the earth

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207 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de wrote:

An asteroid, just recently diccovered, flashed by the Earth very cxlo

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207 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de wrote:

Sorry! I hit the wrong button. ... very closely.

207 months ago

Tom Giebler Translations wrote:

A recently discovered asteroid closely flashed by earth

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207 months ago

Tom Giebler Translations wrote:

Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) ; ...Thursday. The mountain-sized asteroid flashed by the Earth at a speed of 46,000 miles...several hundred or thousand Earth crossers (asteroids) and calculate their orbit...hundreds to thousands" of such Earth- crossing asteroids and that such an object...

207 months ago

Uta Haubold wrote:

flashed by close...

My comment:

...to the earth
or
shooted close...
...to the earth

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207 months ago

Rupert Kindermann wrote:

nearly missed

My comment:

almost missed
passed by in close proximity
etc.

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