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Scary news: Asteroid may pass Earth by just 6,880km in October
Good news: Chelyabinsk-sized rattler won’t wipe us out, will let us test asteroid defences
NASA’s preparing another round asteroid defence tests, thanks to the October fly-by of a rock that may come within a cosmic whisker of the Earth.…
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/31/planetary_defence_test_as_asteroid_2012_tc4_flies_by_in_october/