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Mile Wide Asteroid With its Own Moon Passes By Earth

FLY ME TO THE MOON

The potentially hazardous asteroid will be visible from earth until June 7.

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A mile-wide potentially catastrophic asteroid, complete with its own rotating moon, passed by earth early Sunday morning. The space rocks, called 1999 KW4 by NASA, will be visible until June 7.

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