HOUSE-SIZE asteroid will give Earth a near-miss this Thursday, passing inside the Moon’s orbit while giving experts a rare chance to rehearse for a real-life strike threat. π‘ππ Dubbed 2012 TC4, the space rock will shave past at an altitude of less than 44,000 kilometres — just above the 36,000-km plane at which hundreds of geosynchronous satellites orbit the Earth. http://ift.tt/2kGsLp6
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