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Video of massive asteroid flying past Earth
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New footage from NASA
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- Date Feb 20, 2013
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-- new video from NASA showing a massive asteroid flying right past mother earth.
Harris Faulkner has it she's on the breaking news -- -- Well John it's out and it is impressive the first radar video of the asteroid that came within 171000.
Miles of -- skin tight close relatively speaking when you consider the size of the universe that is.
On Friday when it came closer to -- than any of our communications satellites or many of them.
NASA's deep space network radio antenna in Goldstone California was ready to go to work and capture it look at this.
This is says the asteroid was moving away from -- so not quite as -- -- its nearest point.
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Images captured the pictures were taken.
As it was a bit farther out but still giving us a decent view of an elongated object.
Scientists say it's undergoing a full rotation here they watched that for several hours.
And they are big fans of using radar to study -- for -- for their size their shape surface features in rotation.
They -- it really excited about these pictures because they'll help them plot their orbits in the future to determine if we could be in any danger.
And that's always a good thing because he saw completely different type of object -- -- Russia.
But we didn't necessarily get the notice on that when the Russians didn't.
Because it was moving so quickly and so well in the atmosphere about it I'm in her car and particularly -- -- What that was like them but they ask -- -- when he noticed didn't.
Come nearly as close impressive pictures on now a little nickel left or right to a couple of years ago and that thing -- been right in our backyard that would not have been far.
No doubt Harris Faulkner thank you well.
