Asteroid collision narrowly avoided

Sneaky astronomers reveal that the earth narrowly avoided disaster on June 14 when an asteroid the size of a football pitch made a too-close-for-comfort approach to our beloved rock. Yikes!

Catalogued as 2002MN, the asteroid was travelling at over 10 kilometres a second (23,000 miles per hour) when it passed Earth at a distance of around 120,000 km (75,000 miles).

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(Thanks, Amanda!)