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A small asteroid is making its way towards our planet and will swoop in for an extremely close approach tomorrow, NASA has announced. The space rock is estimated to measure 49 feet in diameter at the most, and will skim Earth from just 437,100 miles away — or less than two times the distance to the moon. While a close ...

Next week, a relatively small asteroid — one thought to be no larger than 98 feet across — will venture extremely close to our planet, passing between Earth and the moon. Known as asteroid 2019 SP3, the space rock was discovered exactly one week ago and is expected to skim Earth closer than the moon on Thursday, scientists at NASA’s ...