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The study of matter and motion through space and time.

Cosmic close shaves

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Astronomy / Geology / Myths / Physics

What were you doing at 3:19am Tuesday 27 January? That’s when a huge asteroid passed within 1.2 million kilometres of our planet. Fortunately that’s about three times the distance to the moon so we weren’t in any danger. But how often do rocks from space actually collide with Earth? And what happens when they do?