Future Asteroids
Twelve near-Earth asteroids appear in this horizontal bar chart, ranked by their minimum close-approach distance to Earth over the past year, with the nearest asteroid (2016 UR36) at the top and the farthest at the bottom. The chart uses D3 v6’s `scaleLinear` for the distance axis, `scaleBand` for the categorical object labels, and `axisLeft`/`axisBottom` to render the axes. The SVG plot is built by appending a `<g>` group, then drawing one `rect` per asteroid, with bar widths mapping to the `distancemin` values parsed from the CSV data sourced from Marc Di Marco’s “Future Asteroids” dataset.