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Watch as asteroid passes over Earth

An asteroid is headed towards Earth -- and while astronomers say we're not in any danger, we won't have a good view from North America to see the asteroid pass over the planet.

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Asteroid striking Earth is 'like a bullet hitting a bullet'

Richard Berendzen, director of NASA's Space Grant Consortium for D.C., says there's no chance an asteroid could catch astronomers off guard.

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A close call of the astral kind, February 2013

An asteroid is headed this way next year, and it will be a close call by celestial standards, says Donald Yeomans from NASA'S Near-Earth Object Program.

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