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Asteroid 2005 YU55 Makes Closest Pass To Earth Posted on : Nov 17,2011
A big asteroid on 9th Nov made its closest fly-by of Earth in 200 years. Astronomers around the world aimed their telescopes to catch a glimpse of the 2005 YU55 asteroid, which is about as big as an aircraft carrier.
The asteroid 2005 YU55 was not visible to the naked eye when it passed by at its closest point at 2328 GMT. The US space agency said the near-spherical, 1,300-feet in diameter asteroid often travels in the vicinity of Earth, Mars and Venus, but the 2011 encounter with Earth is the closest.
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