Asteroid news: Watch a 990m ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid miss Earth this Friday

The colossal asteroid, dubbed Asteroid 1998 HL1, will swing past Earth on Friday, October 25. Astronomer Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project in Italy believes amateur astronomers will be able to see the space rock. The US space agency NASA estimates HL1 measures in the range of 1,443ft to 3,248ft (440m to 990m) across. […]

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