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"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small asteroid will travel relatively near to Earth next week, giving astronomers a rare opportunity for a close-up look.

Asteroid 2007 TU24 was first seen in October and is on a trajectory to pass Earth outside the Moon's orbit at a distance of 334,000 miles on Tuesday at 3:33 a.m.

NASA said it will not be visible to the naked eye but amateur astronomers with modest-sized telescopes should be able to spot it."

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Interesting.

Unfortunately I won't be able to see it because I have to go to class the next day. I think my telescope would have been able to see it.

Very scary when you think about it. It was only discovered a few months ago because it is a smaller asteroid. Yet had this hit Earth, it would be large enough to easily destroy any mega-city (NYC, London, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, ect...). Makes you wonder is there a small one coming at us that we can't see because it is small?

That's a real possibility. Still, I don't waste much of my time thinking about it!!!