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A truck-sized asteroid named Asteroid 2023 BU had a near miss with planet Earth, passing at a very close distance of about 2,200 miles (3,600 kilometers) on January 27, 2023. This is about 1 percent the distance between Earth and our Moon and closer than many artificial satellites that orbit Earth. This makes it the fourth closest pass by an asteroid.
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Animated Orbits of Earth and Asteroid 2023 BU: Phoenix7777/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
Asteroid and Satellites image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Asteroid 2023 BU just passed within a few thousand miles of Earth – https://astronomy.com/news/2023/01/asteroid-2023-bu-just-passed-within-a-few-thousand-miles-of-earth
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