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"Newly-discovered asteroid 2012 KT42 [click for pic] is flying past Earth today … only ~14,000 km above the planet's surface," reports SpaceWeather.com. That's roughly 8,700 miles, or not quite 0.00014 astronomical units (AU), or about 5 percent of the distance from Earth's surface to Luna's (~0.05 LD ( Read more... )
"Newly-discovered asteroid 2012 KT42 [click for pic] is flying past Earth today … only ~14,000 km above the planet's surface," reports SpaceWeather.com. That's roughly 8,700 miles, or not quite 0.00014 astronomical units (AU), or about 5 percent of the distance from Earth's surface to Luna's (~0.05 LD ( Read more... )
![2012 KT42 [click for pic]](http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Ernesto-Guido-Giovanni-Sostero-a-Nick-Howes-stack_1338229691.jpg){kind=link}
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