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'Potentially hazardous' pyramid-size asteroid will make its closest flyby of Earth for more than 100 years this Wednesday

  • A 'potentially hazardous' pyramid-size asteroid will make its closest flyby of Earth for more than 100 years this Wednesday.
  • The asteroid, named 2014 TN17, will come within 3.2 million miles of Earth, around 13 times further away than the moon.
  • Measuring around 540 feet wide, it is larger than the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
  • While classified as 'potentially hazardous,' the asteroid poses no risk of collision and will be observed by NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar.

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