Follow TIS on Twitter: @Truth_is_Scary & Like TIS of Facebook- http://ift.tt/1og5wK2 Yournewswire On Monday asteroid ‘2004 BL86‘ will pass the earth, missing it by just 745,000 miles (three times as far as the moon is from Earth). Asteroids pass by the earth all the time, but none quite as big as this one. It’s a half-kilometer in size and will be the closest known asteroid to pass by the Earth until 2027. It is so big, in fact, that people will be able to see it from their backyards using binoculars or telescopes. Cnn.com reports: “While it poses no threat to Earth for the foreseeable future, it’s a relatively close approach by a relatively large asteroid, so it provides us a unique opportunity to observe and learn more,” Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s Near Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a NASA press release. (On a side note for space rock fans, Yeomans retired January 9 after 16 years of tracking asteroids.
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