There is an asteroid that comes peeking in – Express

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2014 RC. Code name for the small asteroid that this Sunday will rasar the blue planet, there sideways New Zealand. NASA ensures that there is no reason to be worried

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According to the latest calculations of scientists Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the American space agency, the little RC 2014, with only 20 meters, will be only 40 000 kilometers above the Earth by 2:18 a.m. Lisbon, 12 hours across the world.

Tells NASA in a statement that the 2014 RC was discovered on the night of August 31 by the Catalina Sky Survey telescope in Tucson, in Arizona, USA. The next night, the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope astronomical observatory located on the mountain ridge formed by Haleakal inactive volcano in Hawaii, the first confirmed observation

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