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Space news: NASA monitors 2001 FO32 asteroid tracking towards Earth – 7NEWS.com.au
Here’s when the space rock will make its way past Earth – and how you can see it for yourself.
As asteroid the size of Californias famous Golden Gate Bridge will buzz past Earth this weekend.
The space rock, officially called 231937 (2001 FO32), will come within 2 million kilometres.
Though that may seem like a wide distance – and theres no threat of impact – its enough to be classified by NASA as potentially hazardous.
An asteroid is determined as potentially hazardous when its orbit intersects with Earths at a distance of no more than 7.5 million kilometres and is bigger than 140 metres…
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