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200-Foot-Wide Halloween Asteroid Will Fly Past Earth As Rare Blue Moon Lights Up Night Sky – Newsweek
As it flies past, the space rock will be travelling at a speed of around 36,000 miles per hour.
A 200-foot-wide asteroid will fly past the Earth this Halloween as a rare Blue Moon appears in the sky.
The space rock, dubbed 2020 UX3, is estimated to measure between 88 and 196 feet in diameter, data from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Studies (CNEOS) shows. The asteroid is predicted to come around 3.2 million miles of Earth at its closest approach. This is about 13 times the average distance between the Earth and the moon.
As it flies past, the space rock will be travelling at a staggering speed…
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