Asteroid Almost 3 Miles Wide Made a (Relatively) Close Pass with Earth

A huge asteroid zipped past Earth early Friday, but don’t worry, this isn’t “Armageddon.” The asteroid, named Florence, is an almost 3-mile-wide rock that passed about 4.4 million miles from Earth (7 million kilometers) early Friday, NASA says. And while a few million miles sounds like a lot of room, it’s actually a pretty close pass when you’re talking about … Continue reading →