COLUMBIA – Asteroid 4179 Toutatis will pass within 4.3 million miles of Earth during the next few days, and astronomers and stargazers will have the option of watching its passage through a telescope or from their computers.
MU observatory to hold viewing of large, unusual asteroid Toutatis
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 | 6:44 p.m. CST;
updated 7:49 p.m. CST, Wednesday, December 12, 2012
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