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Asteroid set to buzz Earth - closest to New Zealand
« on: September 05, 2014, 05:44:07 PM »
Caught sight of the following this morning . . . .
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11319399

It was apparently only discovered a few days ago!


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