NOT THE CLOSEST PASS
Several articles during the past few days have reported on an asteroid that passed the Earth on Mar. 18 at a distance of 26,500 mi. It is untrue that this was the closest known pass ever (AW&ST Mar. 22, p. 18). On Aug. 10, 1972, a group of vacationers in Utah looked up to see a fast-forming contrail...
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