The asteroid, designated 2012DA14, will fly past Earth on Feb. 15, with a record-setting close approach.
It is passing closer than the GPS, telecommunications and weather satellites. At the closest point, the asteroid will only be 17,200 miles away.
At 50 meters wide, the asteroid is similar in size to the object object created a mile wide crater in Arizona. That crater is known as the Barringer Meteorite Crater and it is the source of the Canyon Diablo Meteorites.
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