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December 13, 2013

Chinese flyby of asteroid shows space rock is "rubble"
Paris (AFP) Dec 12, 2013
China's first flyby of an asteroid shows that a gigantic space rock which once triggered a doomsday scare is essentially rubble, scientists reported on Thursday. On December 13 2012, a lunar probe called Chang'e-2 rendezvoused with asteroid 4179 Toutatis as the rock, bigger than a city block, swept by Earth at a distance of around seven million kilometres (4.4 million miles). Describing the encounter in detail in the journal Scientific Reports, Chinese scientists said the flyby was brief but hig ... read more

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