| Asteroid That Passed By the Earth Last Night Was So Big It Had a Moon Standard Media | |
| go to original January 27, 2015 |
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The asteroid which buzzed Earth last night was so massive it had its own moon. Stargazers around the world trained their telescopes and binoculars on asteroid 2004 BL86 and noticed a tiny baby moon orbiting it.
Its mum, a massive space rock, was a third of a mile wide and zoomed past Earth at a distance of 745,000 miles.
If you consider the Earth is just under 8,000 miles wide and the moon is about 240,000 miles away, you will appreciate just how close this asteroid came to planet earth.
Some believe a rock of similar size was responsible for killing the dinosaurs after hitting Mexico's Yucatan peninsula some 65 million years ago.
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