A HOUSE SIZE ASTEROID TO FLY PAST EARTH ON SUNDAY, SAYS NASA. bbc/news/science-environment 7 September 2014 Last updated at 08:23 The asteroid, 2014 RC, will pass over New Zealand at around 18:18 GMT. It is about 60 ft (18 m) in size. It will (only) be about 40,000 km (25,000 miles) away, (hopefully) posing no danger to Earth, Nasa said. The asteroid at its closest approach will be about one-tenth of the distance from the centre of the Earth to the moon, and is expected to orbit near Earth again in the future. In February 2013, a meteorite of a similar size exploded over Chelyabinsk in Central Russia, injuring more than 1,000 people. Nasa currently tracks more than 11,000 asteroids in orbits that pass relatively close to Earth.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:07:02 +0000
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