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Title: Record-setting Asteroid Flyby in February‏
Post by: Dingo on January 29, 2013, 06:23:41 PM
NASA Science News for Jan. 28, 2013
On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth closer than many man-made satellites. Since regular sky surveys began in the 1990s, astronomers have never seen an object so big come so close to our planet.

FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/28jan_2012da/ (http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/28jan_2012da/)

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwidzVHvbGI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwidzVHvbGI)