NASA just got a look at an asteroid spanning over two football fields wide

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Goldstone Solar System Radar dish scanning the sky from California

The label "space rock" feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed.

A rock is something you throw at a window to get someone's attention. A rock holds down your picnic blanket to keep it from flapping in the wind. This rock, at 660 feet wide, spans two American football fields — and then some.

The ast...

Source: https://mashable.com/article/nasa-asteroid-images-potentially-hazardous

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