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Grounded spacecraft look for new space rocks to visit, including notorious asteroid Apophis
Scientists on the Janus mission are working hard to try to salvage a pair of spacecraft that lost their launch โ and the solution might include the most notorious asteroid out there, Apophis.
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Asteroid coming exceedingly close to Earth, but will miss
An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest such encounters ever recorded. NASA insists it will be a near miss with no chance of the asteroid hitting Earth. NASA said Wednesday that this newly discovered asteroid will zoom 2,200 miles (3,600 kilometers) above the southern tip of South America.
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