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A small asteroid just grazed past Antarctica. Why didn’t anyone see it coming? – ZME Science

A reminder that our asteroid monitoring program is riddled with gaping holes.

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NASA usually does a pretty good job at tracking relatively close asteroids whose paths might cross Earth’s orbit. However, over the weekend a small asteroid about the size of a refrigerator traveled just 3,000 km past Earth — much lower…

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