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Blue-whale-size asteroid to screech past Earth in "close" encounter on June 6. The asteroid, named 2021 GT2, is predicted to safely miss our planet by more than 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers) — or roughly 10 times the average distance between Earth and the moon.


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