Aircraft Carrier-Sized Asteroid Zips Past Earth | Fox News

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 "Nov. 7, 2011: This radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55 shows the space rock 3.6 lunar distances, which is about 860,000 miles, or 1.38 million kilometers, from Earth."

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