Asteroid the size of a football pitch, only discovered last week Misses Earth!
Monday, March 11, 2013 3:05
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Asteroid the size of a football pitch, only discovered last week, passes within one million miles of Earth – (a close shave in space terms)
- Three asteroids passed close by this weekend
- One asteroid on Saturday was ‘just a stone’s throw’ away from Earth
- It could have wiped out a large city if it had landed on a populated area
- Astronomers on the Canary Islands captured a video of one flying past
A 460-foot long asteroid sped close by the Earth on Saturday night.
Discovered just six days ago, asteroid 2013 ET passed 600,000 miles from Earth at 8 30pm GMT.
It was about 2.5 times as far away as the moon, which in space terms is a close shave.
‘The scary part of this one is …SEE LINK–http://alien-ufo-community.ning.com/forum/topics/asteroid-the-size-of-a-football-pitch-only-discovered-last-week
