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NASA predicts time and place of small asteroid’s impact with Earth

With less than an hour's worth of data, NASA managed to predict that a two-meter (6.5 ft) asteroid would impact in the Earth's atmosphere on March 11 at 5:23 pm EST, over the Norwegian Sea 300 miles (470 km) off the east coast of Greenland.

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    NASA predicts time and place of small asteroid’s impact with Earth

    NASA predicts time and place of small asteroid’s impact with Earth

    With less than an hour's worth of data, NASA managed to predict that a two-meter (6.5 ft) asteroid would impact in the Earth's atmosphere on March 11 …

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