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A small asteroid was visible in northern Siberia on Tuesday, as it closed in on its collision course with Earth.
It’s first of two expected flybys this week.
The European Space Agency issued an alert for the 27-inch asteroid at 4:27 a.m. ET, with the agency saying the celestial rock would create a visible fireball in the sky but that “the impact will be harmless.”
The asteroid, temporarily named C0WEPC5, has become Earth’s fourth detected asteroid strike of the year and just the 11th of all time.
Detected strikes are known as “imminent impactors”, according to the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, which identified the fast-moving asteroid ahead of its arrival.
