NASA confirms Earth will have ‘record-setting’ meeting with massive asteroid

NASA confirms close encounter with an asteroid.

NASA confirms Earth will have ‘record-setting’ meeting with massive asteroid
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Science Recorder | Vince Hedden | Friday, February 01, 2013

NASA has confirmed that a massive asteroid will buzz pass Earth later this month. In a video released by the U.S. space agency on Thursday, NASA scientists warn that a massive asteroid will pass perilously close to Earth. “This is a record-setting close approach,” Don Yeomans of NASA’s Near Earth Object Program at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a video released by NASA this week... To continue reading, subscribe to Science Recorder today.

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