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‘That Was Close’: A Delivery Truck-Sized Asteroid Passed Earth By About An Ant’s Nutsack

Holy sweet, baby Jesus: An asteroid (known as 2023 BU) the size of a delivery truck passed Earth today and was one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded. 2023 BU passed the southern tip of South America just before 11:30am AEST, and was at its closest 3,600km away from Earth. The asteroid was first spotted by an amateur astronomer called Gennady Borisov, from Nauchnyi in Crimea, who discovered 2023 BU on Saturday — according to The Guardian

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