kuwaitigenius:  Asteroid to make close approach to Earth next week Space.com: An asteroid half the size of a football field will make a close approach to Earth next week, but poses no threat of crashing into our planet, NASA officials say.Asteroid 2012 DA14's close encounter is a record-breaking celestial event, according to Don Yeomans, the head of NASA's asteroid-tracking program. An object this large only passes this close to the Earth about once every 40 years, and likely only hits the planet once every 1,200 years, Yeomans says.Photo: A diagram depicting the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)   Astroidal neighbor
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