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A car-sized asteroid made the closest Earth flyby a space rock has ever survived – Space.com
It zoomed by at just 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) away.
A newly discovered car-sized asteroid
just made the closest-known flyby to Earth without hitting our planet.
On Sunday (Aug. 16), the asteroid, initially labeled ZTF0DxQ and now formally known to astronomers as 2020 QG, swooped by Earth at a mere 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) away. That gives 2020 QG the title of closest asteroid flyby ever recorded that didn’t end with the space rock’s demise.
It’s the closest known, non-impacting asteroid, NASA officials told Space.com
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