Car-size asteroid discovered 2 days ago flies by Earth at 1/30th the distance of the moon
www.livescience.com
A newly discovered asteroid got within 12,000 miles of Earth on a harrowing, ultra-close approach today. The space rock won't return for 70 years.
  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Which on the scale of the solar system is essentially the width of a damned hair. We have satellites in higher orbits than that.