http://q103albany.com Albany's #1 Rock Station Sat, 25 May 2013 04:08:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://q103albany.com/tech-thursday-asteroid-2005-yu55-to-pass-earth-inside-moons-orbit/ http://q103albany.com/tech-thursday-asteroid-2005-yu55-to-pass-earth-inside-moons-orbit/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:30:00 +0000 Big Rich http://q103albany.com/?p=40471 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.

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