'Potentially hazardous' asteroid zooms past Earth safely
An asteroid the size of a stadium zoomed past Earth on Wednesday at a distance of 1.4 million kilometres, about 3.8 times the average distance between the Earth and Moon. Named 2017 VR12, the 256-metre-wide asteroid, that was initially considered "potentially hazardous", will next be observed in 2026. It was first discovered in November 2017 by a Hawaii-based NASA-funded observatory.