Science
A small, car-sized asteroid just gave Earth a close shave – Space.com
No need to worry about asteroid 2021 GW4.
A newly spotted asteroid
about the size of a car flew harmlessly past Earth this morning (April 12).
Astronomers calculated the asteroid, dubbed 2021 GW4, to be about 14 feet (4 meters) across much too small to survive a journey through Earth’s atmosphere if it were ever on course to collide with our planet, according to NASA
.
But at its closest, at about 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT), the asteroid was about 16,300 miles (26,200 kilometers) away from Earth less than one-tenth the distance between the…
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