‘Surprise’ bus-sized asteroid skims past Earth at 21,000mph

A “surprise” asteroid which NASA only spotted on Christmas Day has skimmed past the Earth. The asteroid, named 2017 YZ4, came its nearest to Earth at 3:56pm GMT on Thursday, missing us by a mere 140,000 miles (224,000km). In comparison the moon...

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