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Originally Posted by photon
100m asteroid will pass within 60,000km of earth, which is pretty darn close.
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I always thought it would be cool when an asteroid passes that closely, we could attach some kind of probe and/or camera to it.
BTW, any idea on how long of an orbit something like that has?