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A car-size asteroid flew within 1830 miles of Earth over the weekend — the closest pass ever — and we didn’t see it coming – Business Insider Australia
A car-sized asteroid flew within about 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) of Earth on Sunday.
- An asteroid the size of a car flew within about 1,830 miles of Earth this weekend – closer than any known space rock has ever come without crashing into the planet.
- A NASA-funded program detected the asteroid, called 2020 QG, six hours after its close approach.
- If the asteroid had hit Earth, it probably would have exploded in the atmosphere in an airburst too high up to do any damage on the ground.
- But the near miss highlights a major blind spot in E…
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