Another near-miss

[bluegrassgazer]

I'm surprised I haven't heard more about this, even though it was just discovered about 2 days ago. Just goes to show how important the search for near-earth asteroids is.
http://gizmodo.com/5383799/an-asteroid-could-have-killed-us-tonight

 

[MeteorWayne]

That article's over the top. It's too small to have killed us anyway, only 6-13 meters in diameter. It would make a nice fireball, and maybe drop a few small meteorites. That's about it

I just posted about this in the small asteroid thread, I was writing as you posted. There are more details there... and 0.9 lunar distance really isn't a "near" miss Also, it's really quite small.

Here's a better article here at SDC:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0 ... -pass.html