"No Earth impact is possible, " said asteroid expert Donald Yeomans at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

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"With this new data, it now looks like we have a fairly solid object, " says Near radio science team leader Dr Donald Yeomans.

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"The meteor was probably about the size of an SUV, " said Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif.

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