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Car-size asteroid will zip between Earth and the moon tonight

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2024 XS2 will pass 122,000 miles ( 196,000 kilometers ) away from Earth tonight .

The asteroid will be bright enough to be visible in long-exposure photographs taken by amateur telescopes.

The close approach comes just three days after a 28-inch -wide ( 70 centimeters ) space rock exploded into a spectacular fireball above Siberia .