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Scientists track asteroid on collision course with Earth

By Richard • Mar 26th, 2009 • Category: News

Scientists have achieved a world first by tracking an asteroid heading straight for our planet and have even recovered its remnants scattered in a desert in Africa.
The object - nearly as big as a double-decker bus - was spotted by telescope and tracked as it hurtled towards the Earth’s atmosphere, where it exploded over the [...]