Another Asteroid! Third Space Rock Buzzes Past Earth
Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 22:30
in Astronomy & Space
A tiny space rock barely missed Earth on Thursday in the third of back-to-back-to-back asteroid flybys over the past 24 hours, coming six times closer than the orbit of the moon.The 25-foot-wide (8-meter-wide) asteroid 2014 EC came within 38,300 miles (61,600 kilometers) of our planet at 4:21 p.m.