With Dominic Waghorn, U.S. CorrespondentA 40 m long piece of rock hurtling through space will pass close to Earth than the other near miss on record.
NASA scientists have calculated that Asteroid 2012 DA14 whistle past the Earth on February 15, closer than the orbits of some of the time and communications satellites, acceleration from a distance of 17,000 miles (27,400 km).
This shave the planet closest to flying objects identified since records began.
Asteroids and meteorites that have come closer than it ended on a collision course with the planet, but this is not considered harmful to us or satellite.
E 'was invented by a dentist Spain asteroid shot amateur spotter. It was part of a group of fans, which in turn is part of the army observers asteroids is important for early warning system for NASA.
Projected path of NASA DA14
The former shuttle astronaut Tom Jones told Sky News there are thought to be a million asteroids out there for the year 2012 DA14.
They are called "city killers" because they will be able to remove the metropolitan area should have hit the planet. NASA should have some form just 1% of them.
One struck a remote part of Russia in 1908 and leveled vast areas of forest in what was then known as the Tunguska incident.
There are believed to be 'murderess planet' 100, which NASA has observed about 90%.
A 'planet killer' is widely believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs.
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