- An asteroid up to 100 feet in diameter passed closely by Earth early on Wednesday morning.
- The space rock named 2020 GH2 came closer to the Earth than the distance between the Earth and the Moon, making it a rather close call.
- The object is now being tracked by scientists.
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NASA and other space agencies around the world are constantly on the lookout for potential threats that might appear out of the darkness of space. Objects like asteroid could cause devastation, especially if they’re large and hit us without warning. Thankfully, scientists are tracking thousands of them already, and find new ones all the time.
That being said, sometimes a space rock gets the jump on us, not appearing until it’s just days or even hours away from making a close pass of Earth. That was the case with 2020 GH2, an asteroid estimated to be as large as 100 feet across, which was initially discovered less than a week ago on April 11th but already made an incredibly close pass of our planet.
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