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Hidden 'Planet Killer' Asteroid Could Smash into Earth One Day

Hidden 'Planet Killer' Asteroid Could Smash into Earth One Day

Asteroids of this size are big enough to cause mass extinction events.

     A "planet killer" asteroid that is hiding in the glare of the sun has finally been detected, and the giant space rock could smash into Earth one day.
By Ben Turner
Live Science
11-3-22

The 0.9-mile-wide (1.5 kilometers) "potentially hazardous" asteroid, named 2022 AP7, is one of several large space rocks that astronomers recently discovered near the orbits of Earth and Venus.

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