3-Mile-Long Asteroid To Fly-By Earth: See the Orbit

Monday, December 10, 2012 - 13:00 in Astronomy & Space

The irregularly-shaped space rock named 4179 Toutatis will make its closest approach (nearly 4.4 million miles away or 18X Moon distance) to Earth on December 12th, 2012.

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