Asteroid Zooms by Earth
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 13:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
As expected, Asteroid 2007 TU24 made its closest approach to Earth at 12:33 a.m. today, Jan. 29 (3:33 a.m. Eastern time), and is now headed away from our planet.
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