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Huge fireball and explosion across California and Nevada as meteor breaks up over Sierra Nevada
--UK Daily Mail, 22 April 2012
Bus-sized asteroid hurtles past Earth - so close it flew UNDER the moon
--UK Daily Mail, 2 April 2012
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14 Jan 2005: Huygens lands on Jupiter's moon, Titan
In the year 2003, Mars has come as close to Earth as it didn't come in millennia, not to speak of lifetimes. Mars opposition occurred on August 28, 2003 (17:58:49 UT), less than two days before the planet passes its perihelion on August 30. The closest approach of the two planets had already occurred one day earlier, on August 27 (09:51:14 UT); distance will be as close as 55.758 million km (more acurately, 55,758,006 km or 34,646,418 miles). At this distance, it appeared larger than at any historic time to now: 25.11 arc seconds in diameter.
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