The Gay Courier: Bus-sized asteroid grazes past Earth - coming even closer than the moon

Monday, May 5, 2014

Bus-sized asteroid grazes past Earth - coming even closer than the moon

Asteroid the size of a bus grazes past Earth - coming even closer than the moon - just days after astronomers discovered it

Despite the majority of impacts occurring in water and high up in the atmosphere, a number have taken place on land. Pictured, an illustration of an asteroid on its way to Earth

The recently-detected asteroid HL 129 was closer to Earth than the Moon on its closest approach at 4.13am on Saturday.

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