Asteroid 2012 DA14 in record-breaking Earth pass
Found on BBC News on Friday, 15 February 2013
An asteroid as large as an Olympic swimming pool has raced past the Earth at a distance of just 27,700km (17,200mi) - the closest ever predicted for an object of that size.
The asteroid's arrival was preceded by a damaging meteor event in Russia on Friday - but indications from the meteor's path suggest that the two events are entirely unrelated - just a "cosmic coincidence", as Alan Fitzsimmons of Queens University Belfast told BBC News.
In astronomical terms, that's unbelieveable close; yet it still missed the earth. Unlike those raining down in Russia however.