Massachusetts GN An asteroid nine times larger than the QE2 is due to sail past the Earth later this month. Luckily, the giant space rock will get no closer than 3.6 million miles, or 15 times the distance between the Earth and the moon. Scientists have named the asteroid 1998 QE2 but the ...

IAN O'NEILL Today (Feb 15) at 7:25 pm GMT, a 45-metre-wide asteroid will glide silently past Earth.The 130,000 metric ton space rock will come within 27,700km of our planet - that's around 1/13th the Earth-Moon distance. It will come close enough to Earth that our planet's gravity will modify its ...

A 150-foot asteroid orbiting Earth called 2012 DA14 will pass so close to Earth it will fly UNDER man-made satellites orbiting our planet.Nasa’s Impact Risk report said that the odds of the space rock actually hitting our planet are very low indeed - but on February 15 next year it will pass ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A big asteroid made its closest fly-by of Earth in 200 years on Tuesday, but there was never a chance of a crash landing as it zipped past our planet, Nasa said. Astronomers around the world aimed their telescopes to catch a glimpse of the 2005 YU55 asteroid, which is the size of ...

AN asteroid as strong as 15 atomic bombs whizzed past earth last night at just ten times the distance of the moon. Astronomers first spotted the cigar-shaped rock spinning through space on Monday evening and tracked it through the atmosphere. The star-gazers were baffled by why the asteroid ...

DINOSAURS - rulers of Earth for 160 million years - all died within days of a giant explosion, scientists said yesterday. An asteroid the size of the Isle of Wight smashed into Mexico with a billion times more force than the Hiroshima A-bomb. A vast fireball swept debris into the atmosphere and ...