Buzzworthy space rocks: Asteroid hunters prep for near miss
Oct 09, 2017
2 minutes
Dark, leisurely rotating, and traveling at about 30,000 miles per hour, asteroid 2012 TC4 is set for an Oct. 12 rendezvous with Earth.
The roughly 65-foot-wide space rock won’t hit us; astronomers calculate it will zip just 27,000 miles – one-eighth the distance to the moon – above our planet’s surface.
But the encounter highlights the threat meteors pose as well as
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