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Asteroid, over a kilometre wide, will be soaring past the Earth tonight.
An asteroid is set to pass Earth at around 8pm - 10pm tonight. At a distance of around 1 million miles and scientists say it will be its closest approach for the next 200 years. It's not going to be visible with the naked eye but can be followed using the following link.
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The small world's closest approach will be at 4:51 p.m. EST (2151 GMT), according to a table from the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), managed by NASA at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. The distance is quite safe, as the 3,400-foot (1-kilometer) asteroid will get no closer than 5 lunar distances during its closest approach, NASA says. The average distance from Earth to the moon, 1 lunar distance, is about 238,855 miles (384,400 km).
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https://www.space.com/huge-asteroid-...-flyby-webcast
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This is like watching paint dry.
The only thing keeping me watching is the doom merchant posters who insist the world will be destroyed and we will not survive the impact from the asteroid as it gets drawn into us following some massive miscalculation in it's predicted trajectory.
Goodbye world! 
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