A large asteroid flew by the Earth

An asteroid the size of a passenger plane flew close to Earth today. There was no possibility of it hitting the Earth, the US space agency NASA announced yesterday.
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Ažurirano: 01.04.2012. 17:58h

Asteroid 2012 EG5 was closer to the Moon than to the Earth during its passage at about 9 hours and 32 minutes GMT. The space rock is a little less than 50 meters wide, according to NASA.

"Asteroid 2012 EG5 will pass Earth safely on April 1," scientists from NASA's Asteroid Tracking Program said in a statement on Twitter.

Although the asteroid passes by on April 1, it is not an April Fool's joke, and it will approach the Earth at its closest point at about 230.000 kilometers, which is only slightly less than half the distance between the Earth and the Moon's orbit.

Asteroid 2012 EG5 is the third small asteroid to fly by Earth in the next seven days. Two smaller asteroids passed by Earth on March 26.

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