Near Earth Asteroid Fly-By Snapped by Italian Observer | Video

Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 21:00 in Astronomy & Space

Gianluca Masi (www.virtualtelescope.eu) captured telescope video of asteroid 2012 QG42 on September 11, 2012. It will pass 1,739,839 miles from Earth on September 14th and is about the size of three football fields.

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