Asteroid Florence zooms past Earth in historic fly-by

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The biggest asteroid in more than a century has whizzed past Earth at a safe – but unusually close – distance.

Asteroid Florence and its two orbiting moons passed 4.4 million miles from the planet, its closest encounter since 1890.
It measures in at almost three miles wide –...
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