Near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 has become a sizzling topic online and on the TV news. Not a week goes by lately when I don't hear about "the asteroid that's going to fly by Earth". Yesterday John, my ...

On Friday, asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass within 17,200 (27,700km) of Earth. DA14 is about 50 meters wide, and will be the closest ever fly-by of a celestial body that astronomers have known about in ...

YAHOO.COM - There is absolutely no chance that asteroid 2012 DA14 will hit Earth when it makes its closest approach on Friday (Feb. 15), but many other asteroids like it have made a crash landing on ...

Now that everyone’s nerves are on edge following the break up of a small asteroid over Chelyabinsk, Russia this morning, we now turn our frayed attention to Asteroid 2012 DA14. NASA is scheduled to ...

Asteroids headed toward earth are a popular plotline in movies, but those not well versed in the sciences might not know how to take news there’s one coming near us in real-life. With the asteroid ...

This week, a hunk of space rock half the size of a football field will pass historically close to us, between Earth and our communication satellites. Scientists are certain the asteroid, dubbed 2012 ...

On Friday afternoon an asteroid known as "2012 DA14" floated by this lonely Earth and, thank God, did not collide with it. But it came close. Officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory studying the ...

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Asteroid 2012 DA14 has moved on, and the Russians are busy cleaning up the mess from yesterday's fireball. Hopefully a few people are also busy looking for meteorites from the fall. The only meteorite ...