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Asteroid Flies past Earth

Asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass close to the to Earth inside the Moon's orbit at approximately 200,000 miles on November 8, 2011. NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, California captured this radar image of the asteroid on November 6th at 2145UTC (4:45 p.m. EST) when it was approximately 1.5 million miles away from Earth. The asteroid is about a city block wide. UPI/NASA/JPL-Caltech

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