Half-Mile-Wide Asteroid To Sweep Past Earth...

BBC July 2, 2006 at 01:18 AM

A large asteroid is set to pass Earth in a close encounter which scientists say will pose no danger.

The asteroid, estimated at half a mile (800m) wide, will sweep within 270,000 miles (433,000km) of the planet - only slightly further away than the moon.

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