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  1. to -- bringing you info on NASA's efforts to detect, track & characterize potentially hazardous asteroids

  2. This new image from a telescope in Australia shows the asteroid as it passed over earlier today: 

  3. Asteroid has made its closest approach to Earth, safely passing our planet 17,500 miles above Indonesia. It's now headed away.

  4. grazed across the atmosphere, where the meteor trail was visible for ~30 secs. The meteor was also brighter than the Sun

  5. was 15 meters in size prior to the Earth's atmosphere, larger than 1 over Indonesia on Oct. 8, 2009 & 1/3rd size of

  6. is largest reported meteor since Tunguska event. Impact was at 3:20:26 UTC. Still being measured. More info to come.

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