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A car-sized asteroid called 2020 QG nearly hit Earth on Sunday – Business Insider – Business Insider
The asteroid, known as 2020 GQ or ZTF0DxQ, flew so close to Earth that it’s now the closest known encounter that didn’t hit our planet.
A car-sized asteroid flew within about 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) of Earth on Sunday.
That’s a remarkably close shave — the closest ever recorded, in fact, according to asteroid trackers and a catalog compiled by Sormano Astronomical Observatory in Italy.
Because of its size, the space rock likely wouldn’t have posed any danger to people on the ground had it struck our planet. But the close call is worrisome nonetheless, since astronomers had no idea the asteroid existed until after it pa…
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