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Car-size asteroid discovered 2 days ago flies 30 times closer to Earth than the moon (www.livescience.com)
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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This means it's an asteroid with a weight-class that would have burned up in Earth's atmosphere, if its orbit happened to intersect ours more directly.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So... Asteroid that would have burned up in the atmosphere will miss us instead. I guess that's good news?

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Livescience is 90% over-hyped nothing.