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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Vishwam Sankaran

Asteroid zooms past Earth unnoticed in ‘one of the closest approaches ever’

An asteroid about the size of a small building zoomed past Earth unnoticed by astronomers last week, coming as close to the Earth’s surface as the International Space Station, according to the European Space Agency.

The space rock dubbed 2025 TF was spotted hours after it flew past Antarctica by the Nasa-funded Catalina Sky Survey, which uses telescopes in Arizona and Australia to spot near-Earth objects.

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