An asteroid bigger than Manhattan is flying close by Earth. The space rock-named( 887) Alinda-is so large it should be viewable with ordinary binoculars. With an estimated diameter of 4.2 km, the asteroid's January appearance sees it coming within a relatively cosmically close distance of 12.28 million km to us....
Its size makes it larger than 99% of other asteroids. Alinda is observed to orbit the sun every 3.89 years or 1, 420 days. However, the asteroid is not considered hazardous....
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2025-01-09 00:00:00.0
