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The largest asteroid ever known to pass near Earth is making a close celestial brush with the planet this week in an event that professional and backyard astronomers are watching closely. ... Asteroid Might Hit Earth in 2880, ... The position of the asteroid on this pass is known to a precision roughly equal to the rock's size,
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www.space.com/scienceastronomy/toutatis_flyby_040927.ht...
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/toutatis_flyby_040927.html
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The largest asteroid by far is 1 Ceres. It is 974 km in diameter and contains about 25% of the mass of all the asteroids combined. The next largest are 2 Pallas, 4 Vesta and ... more about the discovery of Eros, the first known near-Earth asteroid ... 1997 XF11, which will pass close to Earth in the year 2028 (from JPL)
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nineplanets.org/asteroids.html
nineplanets.org/asteroids.html
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The largest asteroid ever known to pass near Earth is making a close celestial brush with the planet this week in an event that professional and backyard astronomers are watching closely. ... The position of the asteroid on this pass is known to a precision roughly equal to the rock's size, ... • NASA: Near Earth Object Program...
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www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/28/asteriod.fly/index.ht...
www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/28/asteriod.fly/index.html
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Space.com reports, "The largest asteroid ever known to pass near Earth is making a close celestial brush with the planet this week…The space rock, named Toutatis, will not hit Earth, despite rumors of possible doom that have circulated the Internet for months.
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www.rockprophecy.com/history7.html
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SPACE.com -- The largest asteroid ever known to pass near Earth is making a close celestial brush with the planet this week in an event that professional and backyard astronomers are watching closely.
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freerepublic.com/tag/toutatis/index
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These events have NASA watching asteroids that may come near Earth to calculate impact risks. Asteroid Watch - A Website by NASA for the Public; ... The largest asteroid yet observed to pass this close to Earth was spotted just 24 hours before it whizzed over the Southern Pacific Ocean. Find out what could happen if an...
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www.associatedcontent.com/article/2057269/asteroid_watc...
www.associatedcontent.com/article/2057269/asteroid_watch_nasa_tracks_nearearth.html
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Asteroid makes close Earth pass Jan 30, 2008 ... Largest asteroid to come near Earth in 22 years Jan 25, 2008 ... Largest asteroid to come near Earth in 22 years; (Jan 25, 2008); The largest asteroid to come near the Earth in more than 20 years will make its closest approach on Tuesday, venturing as close as 1.4 times the...
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www.daviddarling.info/archive/2008/archiveJan08_1.html
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If it ever struck Earth, ... A Japanese interplanetary probe named Falcon arrived September 12, 2005, at the small near-Earth asteroid known as 1998 SF36 some 186 million miles across the Solar System to pick up a sample of the dust from that small body and return it to Earth for analysis. ... Exploring the two largest asteroids...
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www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Asteroids/AsteroidsDescribed....
www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Asteroids/AsteroidsDescribed.html
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The largest asteroid in the solar system is 2001 KX76. ... In our modern times, over 280,000 asteroids have been discovered. Many more are being found all the time. Some of these asteroids pass near the earth and astronomers want to find any that come close to our planet. ... Near Earth Asteroid Tracking, NASA.
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en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:Solar_System/Asteroid_...
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:Solar_System/Asteroid_belt
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