Asteroid the size of a house set for 'near miss' with Earth
An asteroid would fly past Earth harmlessly on October 12 reaching within 44,000 km, one-eighth the Earth-Moon distance, said ESA after new calculations. Earlier estimated to fly as close as 6,800 km, the event is still dubbed as "near miss", since Earth's farthest satellites orbit 36,000 km away. The 100-feet-long asteroid was travelling at 50,000 kmph when discovered in 2012.