NASA tracking plane-sized asteroid approaching Earth

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.
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An airplane-sized asteroid is heading close to Earth — NASA details its trajectory

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking a near-Earth asteroid roughly the size of an airplane. The asteroid named 2025 ...
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An asteroid just flew really close to Earth. No one noticed until hours later.

Earth has a near miss—twice—after two small asteroids seemingly passed alarmingly close to the planet, less than two days apart, one of them going completely unnoticed until hours after it had already ...
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18 Asteroids Passed Earth Closer Than The Moon In November – All Of Them Were Discovered That Month

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The UN's International Asteroid Warning Network is closely watching comet 3I/ATLAS. Here's why.

The comet, which will come within roughly 167 million miles (270 million kilometers) of our planet, will be tracked by telescopes around the world so astronomers can pinpoint its location and make ...