An asteroid as wide as two football fields passed relatively close to Earth. The nearest it came to our planet was roughly eight times the distance from the earth to the moon (the Earth-moon distance averages 239,000 miles) -- so the asteroid passed about 2 million miles from the Earth!
Read more about other asteroids and this event here:
http://www.weather.com/news/science/space/large-asteroid-2014-cu13-pass-earth-20140309
Read more about other asteroids and this event here:
http://www.weather.com/news/science/space/large-asteroid-2014-cu13-pass-earth-20140309
