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Old January 17th, 2018 #1
alex revision
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Default Potentially Hazardous Asteroid To Fly By Close To Earth Next Month

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid To Fly By Close To Earth Next Month

A giant asteroid estimated to be between 1,600 and 4,000 feet across will skim past Earth next month. It will hurl past our planet at a speed of about 67,000 miles per hour.

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid

Astronomers said that the space rock known as 2002 AJ129 will fly by at a distance of about 2,615,1258 miles away from Earth on Feb. 4. While this may seem a great distance, the proximity is relatively close in galactic terms.

NASA has classified the asteroid as potentially hazardous. The U.S. space agency gives this label to space objects that may come within 4,600,000 miles from our planet.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/21...next-month.htm
 
Old January 18th, 2018 #2
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I wonder if that meteor that missed Detroit was part of this asteroid? Probably not, there are many of those things out there.
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