Asteroid the size of a house flies by Earth creating opportunity - WPTZ

"These close approaches are precious opportunities to better investigate the smallest objects, which would be too faint if too distant."

An asteroid the size of a small house flew by Earth Tuesday evening. The space rock came within 79,000 miles (127,000 kilometers) of Earth, or about one-third of the distance between the moon and Ea… [+1257 chars]

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