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Asteroid 4179 Toutatis close, but no cigar.
The Sep. 29, 2004, approach is the closest in this century of any known asteroid at least as large as Toutatis (or more precisely, of any known asteroid with an absolute magnitude as small as H = 15.30) Dist KM 1,549,719; Miles 962,951.
Posted by: Memesis 2004-09-27 |
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