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Asteroid to pass by Earth

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It's not expected to affect our weather, but scientists say Earth will have a relatively close encounter with an asteroid on Thursday.

Space experts say an asteroid 300 yards long will buzz by the earth at a rate of seven miles per second.

The flyby with the so-called space rock will be 1.8 million miles to earth.

It won't be viewable by the naked eye or with a low-powered website, but viewers can watch a live stream through a link on http://www.virtualtelescope.eu/webtv/

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