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Scary! 2 giant asteroids zooming towards Earth TODAY; one will come terrifyingly close
Yesterday, Earth was buzzed by a humongous 180-foot asteroid. Thankfully, it flew safely past. Its closest approach to the Earth was 4.2 million miles. But that is not always the case! The two infamous cases of asteroid strikes that still manage to bring the terror of asteroids to the fore in our consciousness include the "Tunguska Event," which resulted in a shockwave shearing trees across a huge region of Russia back in 1908. The second one is none other than the dinosaur-killing asteroid, which struck around 66 million years ago.