Shawn Laatsch, director of the Emera Astronomy Center and Jordan Planetarium, wrote his Bangor Daily News Eyes on Maine Skies column about an asteroid that passed within 9,000 miles of Earth on March 2. Laatsch, president of the International Planetarium Society, said that’s closer than some communications and weather satellites. The asteroid, about 10 feet
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