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NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that's expected to zoom past our planet tonight at around 19,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The asteroid known as "2021 R16," which measures around 23 feet in diameter, will make its closest approach at around 2.41 million miles from Earth, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). 2021 R16 is not the only space rock within the vicinity of our planet today. Two others, including a 660 feet-wide one known as "2022 SW12" and...
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