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If you surfed the web this morning, you may have seen news of the latest existential threat to humanity: a “planet killer” asteroid named 2022 AP7.

Luckily, Earthlings, the chance of a collision is tiny because Earth will be on the opposite side of the Sun when 22AP7 is predicted to enter the planet's orbit.

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Astronomers have been looking into the Sun's glare, a hiding place for planet-killer asteroids. Recently the team spotted two rocks that fit the title.

It may be the biggest potentially dangerous asteroid discovered in the past eight years.