Asteroid Flyby

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Space Weather: Another Asteroid Flyby & Fireballs over Canada and New Mexico

ANOTHER ASTEROID FLYBY For the second time in as many days, an asteroid is flying through the Earth-Moon system. Yesterday, March 5th, 30-meter asteroid 2014 DX110 passed just inside the orbit of the Moon–about 0.9 lunar distances away. Today, March 6th, 10-meter asteroid 2014 EC is coming even closer–only 0.2 lunar distances. Neither space rock poses an immediate threat to…