'Potentially hazardous' asteroid makes closest pass to Earth in more than century

'Potentially hazardous' asteroid makes closest pass to Earth in more than century

Space Daily

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Washington DC (UPI) Feb 2, 2024

A football field-sized asteroid whizzed by the Earth Friday, making its closest pass in more than a century. The Virtual Telescope Project captured a live stream of the historic astronomical event at about 1 p.m. EST Friday. While the asteroid passed by the Earth from 1.7 million miles away - about seven times the distance from Earth to the moon - it is still a close shave from a cosm

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