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Big asteroid Toutatis passes close to Earth
Washington, Usa - The event will repeat again in 500 years
It seems that the asteroid Toutatis (from the name of a Celtic goddess of the war) passed to 1.500.000 km near the Earth, at almost 40.000 km per hour. It seems that not since the year 1353 did the "space rock" Toutatis pass so close by the Earth, because of continuos variation of the distance between two bodies, along their solar orbits. Maybe this event will repeat again in 500 years, therefore it...
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