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Re:NASA Does Not Detect “Largest Asteroid to Pass This Close... by imagin8or on Thursday September 19, 2019 @03:12PM (#21019566)
How close? 65,000 km. For reference, GEO is 35,000 km, Earth diameter is 12,700 km.
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Re:NASA Does Not Detect “Largest Asteroid to Pass This Close... by theandrewbailey on Thursday September 19, 2019 @03:31PM (#21019769)
And the Moon is 360,000 - 400,000 km away.
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Re:NASA Does Not Detect “Largest Asteroid to Pass This Close... by rabidferret on Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:22PM (#21023064)
Literally the second sentence of the article
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