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Bus-Sized Asteroid Zips Past Earth

2011 MD comes within 7,500 miles

(Newser) - Astronomers got a treat yesterday when an asteroid roughly the size of a bus passed within 7,500 miles of Earth—closer than many satellites. The space rock, named 2011 MD, was over the south Atlantic near Antarctica at the time of its closest approach, reports the Christian Science Monitor... More »

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