Giant Peanut-Shaped Asteroid to Pass Harmlessly by Earth Today
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - 06:02
in Astronomy & Space
A huge, shiny, peanut-shaped asteroid will safely swing by Earth tonight (April 19), coming within a distance of 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers) of the planet — about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon.