Slashdot | Asteroid To Be Naked-Eye Visible In 2029

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Asteroid To Be Naked-Eye Visible In 2029
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Posted by timothy on Friday February 04, @06:58PM
from the not-in-all-jurisdictions-see-local-listings dept.
An anonymous reader writes 'SPACE.com is reporting that asteroid 2004 MN4 will fly so close to Earth in 2029 that it'll be visible to the naked eye. Other than barely-visible Vesta, this is a first. And 2004 MN4 will be about magnitude 3.3 -- like a dim but easily visible star. A moving star in this case. You might remember 2004 MN4 is the one that sparked worry, in December, that it would hit Earth. No worries, NASA says, just a once-in-a-millennium sky show.'

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