after a massive meteor strike in siberia. that leveled millions of degrees across 800 square mile area. >> this afternoon, scheduled main event, asteroid coming closer to the earth than a lot of the satellites we rely on every day. phil keating watching the skies from miami tonight. >> this asteroid, is going away. >> on its way up. >> asteroid ga-14 is 55,000 miles from earth. moving away from us. not to return for decades. >> this asteroid came very close to earth. in fact, closest asteroid fly by in recorded history. 17,000 miles. the world astronomers were spot on predicting we would be fine from asteroid. no earth impact. not this thiam. as there are estimated 1 million space rocks near