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Largest Asteroid To Fly Past Earth In 2021 ‘Potentially Hazardous’ – LADbible
On 21 March the big rock – known as the 2001 FO32 – will be within… wait for it… 4.6 million miles of Earth’s path around the sun
Mark your calendars, guys, because 2021’s largest known asteroid will be passing Earth on 21 March and it’s said to be ‘potentially hazardous’.
The space rock – which is known as 2001 FO32 – is one of numerous near-Earth objects (NEOs) that orbit the sun, just as our planet does.
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Usually NEOs are within 30 million miles – just to put this in to context, the distance around Earth at the Equator is just short of 25,000 miles so NEOs are a long way away.
According to NASA there…
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