Large asteroid to safely zoom between Earth and Moon this evening in once-in-a-decade event

Small asteroids fly past every day, but one of this size coming so close to Earth only happens around once every 10 years.

A LARGE ASTERIOD will safely zoom between Earth and the Moon this evening, a once-in-a-decade event that will be used as a training exercise for planetary defence efforts.

An observatory in La Palma, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, first spotted the asteroid on 27 February. It will also serve as training for how the network “would react to a threat” possibly heading our way in the future, he added.

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