Close encounters of the asteroid kind
A nearly 400-meter-long asteroid is ready for its close-up. Telescopes will zoom in on the space rock — clunkily known as 2005 YU55 — when it passes just 323,000 kilometers from Earth on November 8, the closest visit by an asteroid this size since 1976.
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