An asteroid passed within less than 900,000 miles of the Earth

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Asteroid the size of two football pitches and travelling at 65,000mph passes within 900,000 miles of Earth

The asteroid is called UN12 and was travelling at 65,000 miles per hours. It passed 893,305 miles from the Earth when it approached at 1:42pm GMT. Any object passing within 120million miles of Earth is tracked by NASA.

 

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Do you reckon there are aliens out there saying ' Bugger, missed again'.

Wow! Close call!

FAKE EARTH NEWS.

I am sleeping with one eye open...

Shame it didn’t hit the earth. We need a massive cull of humans. It could end up saving the planet.

Way to close head for the hills Brexit will now have to be delayed until parliament can get this figured out!

Just Short of a Million Miles then( Well, short by 100,000, but that’s no distance in comparison to the size of The Universe😜) We’re Doomed, We’re All Doomed. Planet Earth has only got about 1,000,000, 000 Years Left In Her, ( I can call Earth Her, She identifies as Female 🖕)

Han Solo flew the Falcon right into an asteroid field don’t forget

900’000 because “A million miles away” sounded silly.

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Cant we have some simulation films = hit in oceanhit on ground.

Tired of the play.

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