Giant Peanut-Shaped Asteroid to Pass Harmlessly by Earth Wednesday

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - 17:02 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.

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