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Close Encounters: Is the Sky Falling ... Again?

By Traci WatsonSep 8th 2010 – 1:36PM
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AFP / Getty Images

(Sept. 8) -- This evening, a visitor from outer space will pass a hair's breadth from Earth. A space rock known as 2010 RF12 will whisk so close that even though it is too small to do any damage if it hit the planet, it will be visible for roughly an hour through a hobbyist's telescope. JPL / NASA Asteroids 2010 RX30 and...

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