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a second asteroid almost slipped by earth undetected this month and both were closer to our planet than our Moon are they gone they're gone okay asteroid 2017 bx came on to observatory radars On January 20th 2017 and it passed us by at about a hundred and sixty two thousand miles or 261 thousand kilometres that's about two-thirds of the weight of the Moon slew dot-com astronomers caught a faint image of 2017 BX and nicknamed it rerun which I'm assuming is because they responded the same way late actor Fred Perry would have had he seen the asteroid what's happening so why wasn't this asteroid discovered long before it got this close to our planet turns out rerun is a small fast-moving rock let me paint a picture for you imagine a killer whale flying through outer space at 17,000 miles per hour you're welcome actually if you don't track asteroids for a living you might not be aware that they pass by earth pretty much every single day in fact another asteroid passed by Earth the very same day that rerun did only this one was a lot bigger and a lot farther away like a mile in diameter and six million miles away from Earth difference so for now we don't need to panic for more science and tech news check out cnet.com I'm Ashley sceva because humans