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Earth's "Second Moon" Gets Close, Briefly

Posted by timothy on from the check-its-deodorant dept.

angkor writes with a snippet from MSNBC: "An asteroid that behaves something like a second moon to Earth will make its closest approach to our planet next week before shuttling back into deep space for nearly a century."

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  1. Who cares? by Tuxinatorium · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's just a 200-foot wide asteroid that the earth-moon system happened to capture. Even if it did hit earth it wouldn't do any serious harm.

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