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