The space rock came within 127,000 kilometers of Earth, or about one-third of the distance between the moon and Earth, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies.
The space rock came within 79,000 miles of Earth, or about one-third of the distance between the moon and Earth, according to
still hopes to launch moon mission in June despite two scrubbed trialsGN1 is about the same size as the Chelyabinsk Meteor, which was 59 feet long, said Mike Hankey, operations manager at the American Meteor Society. Read MoreThe asteroid blew up near Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013, creating a shower of meteorites that injured more than 1,000 people, Hankey said. Unlike Chelyabinsk, GN1 posed no risk to people, said Gianluca Masi, founder and scientific director of the Virtual Telescope Project.
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