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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Thank heavens Florence missed Earth
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