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  • Huge 18,000mph Apollo-class asteroid set to zoom past Earth in 'close approach'

    11/21/2021 10:15:11 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 33 replies
    mirror.co.uk ^ | 20 Nov 2021 | ByLeonie Chao-Fong
    The Apollo-class asteroid, called 3361 Orpheus, is 984 feet wide and is travelling at around 18,000 miles per hour. NASA will be keeping a close eye on the huge space rock, which has made it onto the space agency's 'Close Approach' list. But there's no need to panic just yet – the asteroid will pass through a distance of 3.5 million miles from our home planet. Anything that passes within 120 million miles is considered a Near Earth Object (NEO), a term used to describe "comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into...