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Thursday: Asteroid Near Miss Coming
February 6, 2013 | NASA

“Small near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass very close to Earth on February 15, 2013 — so close that it will pass inside the ring of geosynchronous weather and communications satellites.” Quoted from the NASA press release.


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