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Asteroid the Size of a Football Stadium Zooms past Earth

Asteroid approaching planet Earth, elements of this image furnished by NASA

Photo: dzika_mrowka / iStock / Getty Images

An asteroid the size of a football stadium zoomed past Earth Friday scraping by within one-point-seven-million miles of our planet.

This was the first time it passed by Earth since 2016, and the next time it comes back our way in 2032, it will be about 45-million miles away.

The Virtual Telescope Project live streamed the event so you can catch a glimpse of the mammoth asteroid in the video below.


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