It's all right folks, that was just a massive asteroid

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It's all right folks, that was just a massive asteroid

Unread post by Istik » Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:10 pm

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23131271-2,00.html

A MASSIVE asteroid that was first spotted only four months ago has just zoomed past Earth.

The space rock, uninspiringly named TU-24 and roughly 250m in diameter, passed by at only around 1.4 times the moon's distance from Earth.
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