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A giant asteroid races toward Earth!
Jun 30 2006, Irani

A huge asteroid is hurtling toward Earth! But, there is a hope as astronomers expect it to miss the planet narrowly. The space rock — discovered in December 2004 — is called 2004 XP14. It will pass the earth by a little more than the average distance.

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