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Comet To Make Closest Flyby Today
A newly discovered comet will make its closest approach to our planet on TODAY.
Wed Feb 01 2023Written by Zac Aubert
A newly discovered comet will make its closest approach to our planet on TODAY.
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Astronomers say the object's journey toward us took around 50,000 years. The object originates in the Oort cloud, a collection of icy bodies at the edge of the Solar System.
NO IMPACT RISK
The comet will make its closest approach to Earth at around 41 million km (26 million miles)
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