Tractor-Trailer-Sized Asteroid To Buzz By Earth | Video

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - 20:00 in Astronomy & Space

A 52-foot-wide space rock named 2012 TC4 will come within 60,000 miles from Earth on its closest approach on October 12, 2012. This imagery taken by The Virtual Telescope Project in Italy captured it at nearly 500,000 miles away on October 10th.

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