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Near-Earth asteroid twice as big as previously thought

post from Bad Astronomy on 22 June 2012 01:00:10 PM. © Bad Astronomy

On June 14, 2012, the asteroid 2012 LZ1 passed the Earth. It missed us by a wide margin, over 5 million kilometers (3 million miles), so there was no danger of impact. While it does get near us every now and again, using current orbital measurements we[...]

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