NASA lists asteroid as tall as Golden Gate Bridge for a 'close approach'
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dailystar.co.ukpassed by Earth on Thursday closer to us than some weather satellites. The rock was only just discovered last week, but passes Earth at an estimated distance of 0.07 lunar distance away (LD) from Earth, which is around 17,000miles.It measured up to 9.7m, according to estimations.By contrast the 2020 RA2, which was listed for a fly-by on Wednesday, hurtled past at 18.36 LD, which is around 4,384,431 miles away.Before 2020 SW flew past, the Virtual Telescope Project said in a statement: "On September 24, 2020, the near-Earth Asteroid 2020 SW will have an extremely close, but safe, encounter with us, coming at about 27,000 km from the Earth, 7 percent of the average lunar distance."The near-Earth asteroid 2020 SW, discovered by the MLS on.
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