Mile-wide Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth

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Mile-wide asteroid set to pass within 3.9m miles of Earth

Rock known as (52768) 1998 OR2 will pass by on Wednesday but ‘poses no danger to planet’

www.theguardian.com

An asteroid more than a mile wide is set to make a pass by Earth, although scientists insist it poses no danger.

Known as (52768) 1998 OR2, the asteroid will come to about 3.9 million miles away on Wednesday – 16 times further than the distance to the Moon – when it makes its closest approach.

 

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I've been following NASA and JAXA's respective asteroid missions, which has really bought home toe that these huge/tiny objects are locations with histories of their own. Not as much going on as somewhere like Mars, or even the Moon, but enough to make them worth exploring with telescopes and radar as they pass by.