A house-sized asteroid will come ‘damn close’ to Earth in October

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Asteroid TC4 is a name you're going to hear a lot of in the coming weeks, and its remarkably close flyby of Earth will be a historic event in more ways than one. Like many other groups, including NASA, the European Space Agency has been paying particularly close attention to TC4 as it approaches its October flyby date, and thanks to Chile's (very well-named) Very Large Telescope, the group now knows a bit more about exactly how close it's going to be when it waves hello to our little planet.

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