Surprise Asteroid Passes Earth Safely

UVA Senior Scientist Ricky Patterson
UVA Senior Scientist Ricky Patterson

An asteroid the size of a city block zipped past the earth last night, too far to cause any harm.  But as Charles Fishburne tells us in this Science Matters report, this time, we got only two days warning.

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