Huge asteroid passes by Earth - a podcast by RNZ

An asteroid - predicted to be the largest this year - has just passed our planet.
Asteroid 2001 FO32 is speeding across the night sky and reached its closest point to Earth around 5 o'clock this morning.
You would have needed a telescope and a good sense of where to point it to spy the interloper.
Duncan Steel is a space scientist and astronomer.

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