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Asteroid flight at Earth. .(Some graphics in this image is provided by NASA and can be found at http://visibleearth.nasa.gov and https://www.nasa.gov/)
Interesting Engineering
By Ameya Paleja
Sky gazers at the Catalina Sky Survey based in Arizona, U.S. spotted a car-sized asteroid on Saturday, December 17, as it flew by our planet, closer to the surface than the communication satellites that orbit the Earth, CNET reported.
Astronomer Tony Dunn shared a simulation of the asteroid and how the Earth would have appeared when observed from the space rock.
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