Asteroid Flying By Earth Could Be Half-Kilometer Wide | Orbit Animation

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 10:50 in Astronomy & Space

On Jan. 26th, 2015, Asteroid 2004 BL86 will become the largest known space rock to fly this close to Earth (nearest approach = ~745,000 miles).

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