Giant asteroid gets closer to Earth than the moon | The World | ABC NEWS
Published May 19, 2026
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If you recently spotted a strange object in the sky, chances are you weren't imagining things. An asteroid the size of a blue whale has come within roughly 90,000 kilometers of Earth, giving stargazers a chance to observe the rare close encounter. Swinburne University astrophysicist Dr. Sara Webb tells The World it was…
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