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A Car-Sized Asteroid Just Got Remarkably Close to Hitting Earth – Gizmodo Australia
On August 16, a car-sized asteroid came to within 2,945 kilometres of our planet, making it the closest known non-impacting asteroid on record. This asteroid, named 2020 QG, measures around 3 to 6 meters in length, which is roughly the size of a large SUV. It…
On August 16, a car-sized asteroid came to within 2,945 kilometres of our planet, making it the closest known non-impacting asteroid on record.
This asteroid, named 2020 QG, measures around 3 to 6 meters in length, which is roughly the size of a large SUV. Its closest approach to Earth happened at 2:08 p.m. AEST on Saturday August 16, when it appeared some 2,945 km above the southern Indian Ocean, according to NASA.
This marks the closest known close call with an asteroid, the previous record …
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