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• Asteroid will buzz Earth, miss by 17,150 miles

  A 150-foot asteroid hurtled toward Earth's backyard, destined Friday to make the closest known flyby for a rock of its size.

• Asteroid will buzz, miss Earth _ unlike meteor

  A 150-foot asteroid hurtled toward Earth's backyard, destined Friday to make the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. In a chilling coincidence, a meteor exploded above Russia's Ural Mountains just hours before the asteroid was due to zoom past the planet.

• Asteroid buzzes, misses Earth _ unlike meteor

  A 150-foot asteroid hurtled through Earth's backyard Friday, coming within an incredible 17,150 miles and making the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. In a chilling coincidence, a meteor exploded above Russia just hours before the asteroid zoomed past the planet.

• 2 space rocks hours apart point up the danger

  A space rock even bigger than the meteor that exploded like an atom bomb over Russia could drop out of the sky unannounced at any time and wreak havoc on a city. And Hollywood to the contrary, there isn't much the world's scientists and generals can do about it.

• Asteroid hunters want to launch private telescope

  Who will protect us from a killer asteroid? A team of ex-NASA astronauts and scientists thinks it's up to them.

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  Group forms to hunt killer asteroids

  Who will protect us from a killer asteroid? A team of former NASA astronauts and scientists are up for the challenge.

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