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Headline-grabbing asteroid will totally miss us

Post author By Alan Boyle
Post date June 5, 2020
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An artist’s conception shows asteroids zipping past Earth. (NASA Illustration)

The bad news is that an asteroid of city-killing proportions is heading in our direction, but the good news is that it’ll miss us on the night of June 6 by 3.2 million miles.

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Tags Asteroids, Doomsday, Space

By Alan Boyle

Mastermind of Cosmic Log, contributor to GeekWire and Universe Today, author of "The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference," past president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.

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