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“Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.” -Roger Zelazny It's always the ones you least expect that get you the worst, it seems. I went to bed last night excited that Asteroid 2012 DA14, a 200,000 ton asteroid, was going to pass within just 28,000 km (or 17,000 miles) of Earth's surface, which would make it the closest pass of an asteroid that large that we've ever observed.

The clip was captured by Gianluca Masi, an astrophysicist and manager of the Virtual Telescope Project, provided by the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Italy.

The space rock, called 7482 (1994 PC1), poses no threat to the Earth as it will be five times farther away from the planet than the moon, as it shoots by at 43,000 mph at 21:51 GMT tonight.

The space rock, called 7482 (1994 PC1), poses no threat to the Earth as it will be five times further away from the planet than the Moon, as it shoots by at 43,000 mph.

An asteroid bigger than the Statue of Liberty will fly past Earth at 8:20pm GMT on Christmas Day, according to data from NASAs Center for Near Earth Studies. The asteroid, called 2014 SD224, will come within 0.02019 astronomical units, or nearly 1.9 million miles, from the Earths surface.   2014 SD224 has a diameter anywhere between 302 and 690 feet (92 to 210 metres) – meaning it could be more than twice the size of the Statue of Liberty (305 feet) or bigger than Salisbury Cathedral (404...

© Daily Mail, UK The asteroid could be more than twice the size as the Statue of Liberty (305 feet) or Elizabeth Tower (better known as Big Ben) and bigger than Salisbury Cathedral (404 feet) An asteroid bigger than the Statue of Liberty will fly past Earth at 8:20pm GMT on Christmas Day, according to data from NASAs Center for Near Earth Studies. The asteroid, called 2014 SD224, will come within 0.02019 astronomical units, or nearly 1.9 million miles, from the Earths surface. 2014 SD224 has a...

Nasa says they place a high priority on tracking asteroids. nasas near earth object program has found more than 90% of dangerous objects larger than half a mile. the one thought to have killed the dinosaurs was about six miles long. the next time an asteroid is expected to get this close to earth wont be in august 2027. scientists found out about that asteroid in 1999. a near miss, a close encounter on this halloween. >> thank you so much. >> all right, still ahead, we all know sugar can be bad ...

Russia last year was just 30 meters in diameter and scientists say that explosion carried more energy than a large atomic bombs which is why hundreds of millions of buildings were damaged. nasa and the jet propulsion laboratory in california actively on the hunt for potential planet killers the near earth object program and it continues to recruit other nations, universities, observatories, even astronomers to look up and out into our gl axe and beyond looking for threats. so far near 181,000 ne...

>> reporter: they know because of that boom. a 4 kiloton explosion. >> it shook a lot of houses and buildings on the ground. >> reporter: nasa is already working on the armageddon scenario. developing a small probe to ram asteroids and knock them off course. theyve even tested it successfully. all thats left of this one are tiny rocks no bigger than a baseball. >> but the men in black are on it? >> theyll be on it. >> reporter: david wright, abc news, pasadena. >> pretty amazing stuff. >> every ...

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