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Giant asteroid to pass between earth, moon
Tuesday November 08, 2011 12:06:57 PM,
RIA Novosti
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Asteroid bigger than aircraft carrier closing in
An asteroid
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Moon Tuesday. It will be the closest encounter by such a huge
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Moscow: A
400-metre-wide asteroid will Tuesday fly past earth, closer to it
than the moon's orbit.
The asteroid will pose no threat to Earth, NASA says. It will not
be visible without a telescope.
NASA scientists have been tracking the asteroid, named 2005 YU55,
since Friday.
"The asteroid 2005 YU55 cannot hit Earth, at least over the
interval that we can compute the motion reliably - which extends
for several hundred years," said Lance Benner, the asteroid's
principal researcher at NASA.
The aircraft carrier-sized asteroid will make its closest approach
to Earth at 23:28 GMT, at a distance of 325,000 km. It is the
closest this space rock has come in 200 years.
NASA's Goldstone Observatory in California and the Arecibo
Planetary Radar facility in Puerto Rico will scan the asteroid
during the close pass in a bid to identify its path and substance,
and where it may go in the future.
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More than 2.5mn people from all
across the world have gathered in Makkah for Haj which starts
November 05, 2011 this year. Haj, the fifth pillar of Islam is
a religious journey to the House of Allah in Makkah. This is
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