ALERT: Earth Right Now at Condition Code of 9 – A Bus-Sized Asteroid Just Gave Earth a ‘Close Shave’ (+Video)

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Earth Right Now at Condition Code of 9 – A Bus-Sized Asteroid Just Gave Earth a Close Shave 

Earth Just Narrowly Missed Getting Hit by an Asteroid

​Asteroid 2016 SJ missed the Earth by less than a third of the distance to the Moon.

2016 SJ
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2016%20SJ;orb=1

Closest Approaches

2016 SC http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2016%20SC;orb=1

2016 SG http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2016%20SG;orb=1

2009 UG http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2009%20UG;orb=1

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

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