This past Monday, March 1st, an asteroid whizzed by Earth, flying between the Earth and the moon, just 66,000 km away from us. It was at least 65 feet wide (possibly more than double that), and was travelling 12 miles per second. Now that’s hardly an extinction level event, but it sure would hurt. One of those lands on a small town and we’ll start to remember to respect that which falls from the sky.

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