It's all right folks, that was just a massive asteroid
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:10 pm
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23131271-2,00.html
A MASSIVE asteroid that was first spotted only four months ago has just zoomed past Earth.
The space rock, uninspiringly named TU-24 and roughly 250m in diameter, passed by at only around 1.4 times the moon's distance from Earth.