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Near Earth Asteroid Flyby!

Pull out your telescope if you'd like to see the newly discovered asteroid 2014RC this Sunday, September 7th! 

The 60-foot-wide (20 metre) Near Earth Asteroid was identified by both the Catalina Sky Survey and Pann-STARRS1 telescopes earlier this week, and will come within 25,000 miles (40,000 km) of our home planet this weekend.

Read more about asteroid 2014RC, and how to observe it, here!