A Car-Size Asteroid Just Whipped by Earth

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 - 15:07 in Astronomy & Space

A car-size asteroid was caught on camera just before it approached within 10,100 miles (16,300 km) of Earth today (April 4), less than 1/20th the distance from the Earth to the moon.

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