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A giant asteroid is due to zoom by Earth and scientists plan to probe it with radar beams

Giant 'Potentially Hazardous' Asteroid Will Whiz By Earth So Close We Can See Inside It

On February 4, an asteroid called 2002 AJ129 is due to slip past Earth. It is between 1600 and 4000 feet across, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, but there's no chance it will make impact—NASA has calculated it will remain 2.6 million miles away.

That still makes it what astronomers call a "potentially hazardous asteroid," thanks to its size being more than about 500 feet across and an orbital path that carries it within about 4,650,000 miles of Earth.

But while they're confident we won't all go the way of the dinosaurs, scientists do want to keep an eye on the space rock—and they'll do so with the Goldstone Radio Telescope in California. That is one of the U.S.'s two high-powered radar astronomy facilities, along with the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico.

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My question is: was the meteor that hit Michigan a part of this incoming asteroid? Every time we have a big one come by, what they call "pushers" seem to appear before it.
 
Debi you could be right. Scary
 
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Well meteors come from inside our solar system and most are pieces of asteroids that broke apart a long time.....Most are in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.....The Michigan meteor possible came from the remnants of an asteroid that exploded long ago but I doubt the Michigan meteor came from 2002 Aj129 as that asteroid is still in one piece.
 
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