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An asteroid as big as four Denver Broncos football fields flew past Earth Tuesday afternoon. It’s the closest encounter involving a large asteroid in more than three decades.
Its approach was pegged at a distance of 202,000 miles at 6:28 p.m. EST. That’s just inside the moon’s orbit; the average distance between Earth and the moon is 239,000 miles.
The last time a large cosmic interloper came that close to Earth was in 1976, and experts say it won’t happen again until 2028.
At the Chamberlin Observatory on the University of Denver campus, a dozen people gathered to watch the asteroid zip by.
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