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Tech Thursday – Asteroid 2005 YU55 To Pass Earth Inside Moon’s Orbit
Tech Thursday – Asteroid 2005 YU55 To Pass Earth Inside Moon’s Orbit
Tech Thursday – Asteroid 2005 YU55 To Pass Earth Inside Moon’s Orbit
It's not often we get an extraterritorial visitor here on the good old Earth. But according to NASA, on November 8th, Asteroid 2005 YU55 will make a pass inside the Moon's orbit, and scientists are not wasting the opportunity to study it up close as it "whooshes" by us.