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Universe Sends Mother Earth an Asteroid Valentine

Lucky women the world over will no doubt be sporting diamond rings on the day after Valentine’s Day, or as some like to call it, a rock. This Valentine’s Day, Mother Earth gets a rock of her own: The universe is flinging an asteroid that will whizz past the planet inside the orbits of weather and communications satellites on February 15. Astronomers are all abuzz over this space rock, which will blow by at a mere 17,000 miles above the planet’s surface. (Satellites synchronized to Earth’s orbit, known as geosynchronous satellites, are typically 22,000 miles from us.)

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