Truck-sized asteroid
June 9, 2013, Sunday
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AN asteroid the size of a small truck zoomed past Earth four times closer than the moon yesterday. NASA said Asteroid 2013 LR6 was discovered about a day before its closest approach to Earth, which occurred at 04:42 GMT about 105,000 kilometers over the Southern Ocean, south of Tasmania, Australia. The 10-meter-wide asteroid posed no threat. A week ago, the 2.7-km-wide asteroid QE2, complete with its own moon in tow, passed 5.8 million km from Earth.
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