* Astronomy

Asteroid 1997 XF11 will pass well beyond the Moon's distance from Earth in October 2028 with a zero probability of impacting the planet, according to astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
The asteroid "is predicted to pass at a rather comfortable distance of about  960,000 kilometres in 2028," reported Dr. Donald K. Yeomans and Dr. Paul W. Chodas, JPL scientists who specialise in computing the predicted orbits of comets, asteroids, planets and other bodies in the solar system.

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