2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope

 

 

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Joel Kontinen

A "city-killer" asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth.

The asteroid, named 2013 NK4, is around 610 metres or 2,000 feet wide, making it about twice the size of the "god of chaos" asteroid Apophis.

It will make a trip of 3.2 million kilometres or 2 million miles from Earth.

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Harry Baker, 2024, 2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope (msn.com) April 16.