Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On October 12, a 50 foot-wide asteroid will skim past Earth at a distance of 31,000 miles. Named TC4, it is one of the closest ...

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An asteroid that’s somewhere between 30 and 100 feet long is hurtling through space in the direction of Earth at 30,000 miles per hour — but don’t worry. We’re not in any danger. On Oct. 12, the ...

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A cosmic close call is set to occur high above Earth late Wednesday night (Pacific time) when an asteroid the size of a house passes almost as close to us as some of the communications satellites that ...