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Huge Asteroid Barley Misses Earth!

How close is “too close?” NASA says we “barely” missed being hit by a massive asteroid – capable of wiping out a city – yesterday. Apparently, it zoomed past Earth…

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(Photo by ESA 2010 MPS for OSIRIS Team via Getty Images)

Photo by ESA 2010 MPS for OSIRIS Team via Getty Images

How close is “too close?” NASA says we “barely” missed being hit by a massive asteroid – capable of wiping out a city – yesterday. Apparently, it zoomed past Earth yesterday coming 17-thousand miles closer than our moon.

What the whaaaat!!?? Scientists say a space rock was going as fast as the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs…about 55-thousand miles-per-hour. And get this – it wasn’t alone – it was the closest of three Asteroids that flew by, but wasn't spotted until a few hours before it passed. That's nice to hear haha.

Apparently, we get a few asteroid “drive-bys” like this every year, but this one is the largest so far for 2019. I guess this is just a reminder that one of these bad boys may not miss. So that's nice.

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