Monday, April 2, 2012

April Fools' Day asteroid zips close by Earth
[ Sun, 1 Apr 2012 21:15:43 GMT ]

This graphic depicts the orbit of asteroid 2012 EG5 (in blue) during its April Fool's Day flyby of Earth on April 1, 2012.An asteroid the size of a passenger jet zoomed near the Earth Sunday, just in time for April Fools' Day, but the space rock flyby posed no threat of hitting our planet, NASA officials said.


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