Cape Canaveral (Florida): A 150-foot asteroid hurtled toward Earth's backyard, destined on Friday to make the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. In a chilling coincidence, a meteor exploded above Russia's Ural Mountains just hours before the asteroid was due to zoom past the planet.
Scientists the world over, along with NASA, insisted the meteor had nothing to do with the incoming asteroid since they appeared to traveling in opposite directions. The asteroid is much more immense object that was expected to miss Earth by 17,150 miles, avoiding catastrophe.
But that's still closer than many communication and weather satellites; scientists insisted these, too, would be spared.
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