Humanity should be thankful “The Beast” doesn’t have Earth in its crosshairs.This Sunday June 8, the near-Earth asteroid 2014 HQ124 — which some observers have nicknamed “The Beast” — will give the planet a relatively close shave, coming within 777,000 miles 1.25 million kilometers at its closest approach, or about 3.25 times the distance from Earth to the moon.
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