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with you on today's episode, Earth's upcoming close encounter with an asteroid, 10 times closer

than our own moon, in fact, and scientists plan to study it.

The cicadas are here and they're wreaking havoc in South Carolina. Plus,

on this week in history, mass trials of the polio vaccine are distributed. That's coming up on

cool stuff. We don't have to worry about it yet, but a potentially dangerous asteroid will be swinging

past Earth 10 times closer than our moon is to our planet. In five years time,

Apophis will be less than 20,000 miles away from Earth and scientists are planning on taking advantage of

its visit. The 1,100 foot wide peanut-shaped asteroid will fly by Earth on April 13, 29. When it was

discovered in 2004, it was designated as a hazardous asteroid that could hit Earth,

but after more observations, scientists determined that we should be safe, at least for another century.

Was Stephen Tyler on standby to be singing during this moment?

That's what I'm curious to know.

That's right.

We need to get Bruce Willis and his crew

ready to go to make it explode, right? Well, objects the size of Apophis strike Earth about

once every 80,000 years. And when they do, they unleash catastrophic damage and can cause

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