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An asteroid about 100 meters in diameter, racing 15 miles per minute, came close to hitting Earth. Host Marco Werman speaks with Kris Stanek, a professor at Ohio State University and the principal investigator at ASAS-SN, about how we missed detecting the asteroid sooner and if we would be ready if a larger asteroid hid.