A breathtaking view of the Earth. There are asteroids coming in the future, like Gliese 710, that can destroy our planet. [Featured image by NASA/Apollo 17 crew/Wikimedia Commons]

Thank heavens Florence missed Earth

By Lucy Santos on September 8, 2017

This month of September started unusually. Florence, a three mile wide asteroid, passed closely by the Earth on September 1, 2017. Luckily, Florence did not strike the Earth. If Florence would have collided into our planet, she would have been a meteor. When an asteroid comes…

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