Asteroid 2007 TU24

Asteroid Fly-By Set for Tuesday Night

An asteroid discovered only last year readies to pass a hair's distance from Earth

Make sure you dont miss this one. Asteroid 2007 TU24 will be as close to Earth as it has been in 2,000 years, and it wont get any closer in this century. With a diameter of around 800 feet, the space rock is large enough to cause some serious damage if it was ever to strike our pale blue dot, but astronomers say that is not a possibility.

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