Tiny Asteroid Buzzes by Earth – the Closest Flyby on Record | NASA

Tiny Asteroid Buzzes by Earth – the Closest Flyby on Record | NASA

Asteroid Close Approach – Near-Earth Asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But, an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known NEA: It passed 1,830 miles above the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday, Aug. 16.

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