An asteroid three times the size of New York’s Empire State Building narrowly missed Earth’s orbit this morning, astronomers said.
“Near-Earth #asteroid 1994 PC1 is very well known and has been studied for decades by our #PlanetaryDefense experts,” NASA tweeted last week.
An asteroid roughly three times the size of New York’s Empire State Building made a relatively close pass by Earth this morning.
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