I miss posting these kinds of stories! 
[quoteurl=http://www.msnbc.com/news/177595.asp]An asteroid roughly as wide as a football field gave Earth its closest call in eight years last week, astronomers say. They say asteroid 2002 MN passed within 75,000 miles of Earth — closer than the moon — last Friday, but it was not detected until three days afterward. At an estimated 50 to 100 yards across, the asteroid wasn’t big enough to cause an “Armageddon”-style catastrophe, but in a worst-case scenario, it could have laid waste to a city.[/quoteurl]
[quoteurl=http://www.msnbc.com/news/177595.asp]An asteroid roughly as wide as a football field gave Earth its closest call in eight years last week, astronomers say. They say asteroid 2002 MN passed within 75,000 miles of Earth — closer than the moon — last Friday, but it was not detected until three days afterward. At an estimated 50 to 100 yards across, the asteroid wasn’t big enough to cause an “Armageddon”-style catastrophe, but in a worst-case scenario, it could have laid waste to a city.[/quoteurl]
