Stadium-Sized Asteroid 2020 XR Zooms Past Earth at 1.37M Miles

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Asteroid 2020 XR meets potentially hazardous criteria - exceeding 150 meters with close Earth proximity under 4.6 million miles.

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Virtual Telescope Project's livestream event gets scrapped due to rainy skies over Manciano, Italy.

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Meanwhile, asteroid C0WEPC5 creates spectacular fireball show over Siberia, spotted just 12 hours before impact.

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Stadium-Sized Asteroid 2020 XR Zooms Past Earth at 1.37M Miles

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Stadium-sized asteroid 2020 XR, spanning 1,200 feet, blazes past Earth at 1.37 million miles - a close shave in cosmic terms.

Asteroid 2020 XR meets potentially hazardous criteria - exceeding 150 meters with close Earth proximity under 4.6 million miles.

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Earlier observations from 1977 resurfaced after 2020 XR's official discovery, enriching astronomical data banks.

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Astronomers squash 2028 impact fears - calculations show zero Earth collision risk for the next century.

Virtual Telescope Project's livestream event gets scrapped due to rainy skies over Manciano, Italy.

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Four additional asteroids, ranging from bus to airplane size, share Earth's cosmic neighborhood on the same day.

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2020 XR's trajectory shows Mars orbit crossing in 2025 before extending into space, not reaching Jupiter's orbit.

Meanwhile, asteroid C0WEPC5 creates spectacular fireball show over Siberia, spotted just 12 hours before impact.

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NASA's ATLAS system marks C0WEPC5 as 2023's fourth detected imminent impactor, pushing tracking capabilities forward.

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Space agencies flex asteroid defense muscles - NASA's 2022 impact mission successfully altered celestial body's course.

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