TORONTO – Another asteroid will make a close flyby of Earth on Wednesday, but this one is closer than the last one which passed two weeks ago.
Don’t worry: Though this is a relatively close flyby — about 350,000 kilometres from Earth — it poses no danger.
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The 30-metre asteroid, 2014 DX110, was discovered just days ago by astronomers using the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that such close passes happen on average about 20 times a year. The space organization tracks asteroids using both ground-bases and satellites.
The asteroid makes its closest pass around 4 p.m. EST. The online telescope program Slooh will be hosting a live event on its site trying to track it as it passes Earth.
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