Voice of America: Giant Asteroid Cruises by Earth

Voice of America Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries

Giant Asteroid Cruises by Earth Jun 1st 2013, 00:09 A 2.7 kilometer-wide asteroid has sailed past our planet. The 1998 QE2 asteroid posed no real threat as it passed about 3 million kilometers from Earth -- about 15 times the distance from Earth to the moon. NASA scientists said the asteroid is not named for anything on Earth. Asteroid names include the year the space rock was detected, along with an alphanumeric code indicating which month and when in the month it was discovered. The flyby helps raise awareness of the millions of space ...

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