Thursday 3 March 2016

Asteroid 2013 TX68 To Whiz Past Earth From March 5 - 8!

An asteroid, 2013 TX68the size of a basket ball court is expected to fly past earth for the second time in two years, from March 5 to March 8.
NASA has created a special office to deal with coordinating response to threatening near-Earth objects (NEOs).
In a statement, Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), said "The data indicate that this small asteroid will probably pass much farther away from Earth than previously thought."
The asteroid flew past earth  in 2014, at a comfortable distance of about 1.3 million miles.

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