'Potentially Hazardous' Kilometer-Wide Asteroid Set to Pass

An asteroid that measures a little over half a mile wide, bigger than any building on Earth, is to fly by Earth and through the inner solar system, with a proximity close enough to our planet that even backyard astronomers can get a glimpse.

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