CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 9 -
An asteroid as big as a city block shot relatively close by the Earth on Saturday, the latest
in a series of visiting celestial objects including an asteroid the size of a
bus that exploded over Russia last month, injuring 1,500.
Discovered just six days ago, the 460-foot long (140-meter) Asteroid 2013 ET passed about 600,000 miles from Earth at 3:30 p.m. EST. That's about 2-1/2 times as far as the moon, fairly close on a cosmic yardstick.
"The scary part of this one is that it's
something we didn't even know about," Patrick Paolucci, president of Slooh Space
Camera, said during a webcast featuring live images of the asteroid from a
telescope in the Canary Islands. read full article: http://news.yahoo.com/earth-gets-rush-weekend-asteroid-visitors-001945056.html
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