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Astronomers Spot Ominous Asteroid

from the January 02, 2001 eNews issue
http://www.khouse.org (visit our website for a FREE subscription) An asteroid passed within 772,000 kilometers (479,700 miles) of the earth last Friday. Although the distance is twice the distance to the moon, astronomers consider it a near miss. Astronomers discovered the 50-meter-wide (164 feet) asteroid only at the last minute.

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