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Another Previously Undiscovered Asteroid Just Buzzed Past Earth for the Second Time in Two Weeks
Astronomers have discovered a new asteroid—just in time to catch it as it hurtled past us at less than a tenth of the distance between us and the moon. It’s the second time that’s happened in two weeks.
Monster mile-wide asteroid to make dramatic ‘near Earth pass’ today, with another to whiz past next week
A MASSIVE two kilometre-wide asteroid has made a dramatic “near Earth pass” today.
...Another rock named 2016QL44 has also been identified – and heading in our direction on “a highly uncertain orbit”. ...at just 61 metres in length, so it would likely not cause the apocalypse. However, if it was to crash into a city it would cause the same damage as several nuclear bombs.
It is believed 2016 QL44 will also miss earth – predicted to whiz by at 60,000km/h in nine days’ time, on September 17.
But scientists are keeping a close eye on it in case of a miscalculation or a change in course.
The space rock was coded as a nine of NASA’s scale – meaning scientists are the least certain about its flight path.
In 1908, a similar sized asteroid exploded above Siberia in what has now been dubbed The Tunguska Event.
Meteor explodes in fiery blaze over Cyprus
What appears to be a meteor burst across the nighttime sky in Cyprus early on Friday, flashing and thundering so powerfully overhead that the ground shook, according to reports from residents.
A Cyprus Geological Department official, Iordanis Demetriades, said there's no indication that the object hit Earth. It probably "exploded in the sky," he said. Those living in the Troodos Mountain range said they saw green-white lights in the sky around 1 a.m., and then heard large blasts, according to police.
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