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NASA Says 3 Asteroids Will Fly Past Earth on Wednesday, With One As Big As Statue of Liberty – Newsweek
The space rocks will all make their closest approaches to our planet within a period of around four hours.
Three asteroids will fly past the Earth on Wednesday at a relatively close—albeit safe—distance, with one of them measuring about the same size as the Statue of Liberty, data from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Studies (CNEOS) shows.
The first space rock to make a close approach tomorrow, dubbed 2020 TD, will come within around 4.5 million miles of our planet at 10:14 a.m. ET on October 14 while travelling at around 32,00 miles per hour.
That distance is relatively small in astronomical terms—ro…
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