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Small Asteroid Just Misses Earth
January 29, 2012 | MSNBC

An asteroid measuring somewhere between 20 and 60 feet in diameter came within 37,000 miles of hitting the Earth – that’s about 1/6 of the distance between Earth and Moon.


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