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Comet "Grazes" Earth

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Approaching within one million miles of the earth, a comet or minor planet traveling at the rate of 20 miles per second threatened a five-year-old record, the Harvard Observatory announced last night.

The standing record was set in 1937 by Hermes, another minor planet, which came within 475,000 miles of the earth.

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