Stargazing: No Armageddon, but asteroid will come close
One week from today, the Earth will not be destroyed. But an asteroid some 1,300 feet wide will pass close by our planet. Asteroid 2005 YU55 flies inside our moon's orbit, coming to within 201,700 miles.
Don Yeomans, manager of NASA 's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena , Calif. , said “YU55 poses no threat of an Earth collision over, at the very least, the next...
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