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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
Clips, images credit: GETTY & ESO, ESA/HUBBLE & NASA