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Asteroid size of SUV just misses Earth
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An asteroid the size of an SUV passed 2,950 kilometers above Earth, the closest asteroid ever observed passing by our planet, NASA said on Tuesday.
If it had been on a collision course with Earth, the asteroid 鈥 named 2020 QG 鈥 would likely not have caused any damage, instead disintegrating in the atmosphere, creating a fireball in the sky, or a meteor, NASA鈥檚 Jet Propulsion Laboratory said.
The asteroid, which was about 3 to 6 meters long, passed above the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday at 4:08am GMT.
It was moving at nearly 12.3 kilometers per second, well below the geostationary orbit of about 35,200 kilometers at which most telecommunications satellites fly.
NASA said that similarly sized asteroids pass by Earth at a similar distance a few times per year.
But they鈥檙e difficult to record, unless they鈥檙e heading directly toward the planet.
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