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Meteor alert: the perseids are coming!
At a distance of around 8 billion kilometers (5 billion miles, or 54 AU -- a little beyond Pluto's orbit), an icy space rock silently hurtles toward the inner solar system steadily gaining speed.
This piece of space debris -- composed of primordial rock and ice -- measures no more than 26 kilometers (16 miles) in diameter, and as it plunges sunward, it will pass the orbits of Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and even power through our neighborhood before being flung back into the depths of interplanetary space.
Full story at Discovery News.
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