Will the asteroid make the earth move? "Ooohh a rock star." 26 January, 2008

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Will the asteroid make the earth move? "Ooohh a rock star." 26 January, 2008

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Shows earth looking with reverance, as though at a rock star, at an asteroid which is speeding past. Refers to the fact that the largest asteroid to come near the Earth in more than 20 years will make its closest approach on 29th and 30th January, 2008, venturing as close as 1.4 times the distance to the Moon. Already, the first radar observations of the space rock reveal it may have formed from two separate asteroids that fell together and stuck. The asteroid, named 2007 TU24, was discovere...

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2008

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http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23228850

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Asteroids / Earth (Planet) / Rock musicians

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