'Potentially Hazardous' Asteroid Twice the Size of Empire State Building to Fly by Earth
19 Jan 2022
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The asteroid, named 7482 (1994 PC1), is also larger than the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa
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'Potentially Hazardous' Asteroid Twice the Size of Empire State Building to Fly by Earth
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