Phew... Come out from under the kitchen table. Let the air back into the nuclear bunker in the garden.
After skimming closer to the earth than any other asteroid of its size, space rock 2012 DA14 missed us by about 17,100 miles on Friday evening, a margin closer than some satellites.
Experts had given assurances there was nothing to fear from the asteroid, which was too small to see with the naked eye even at its closest approach over the Indian Ocean, near Sumatra .... http://www.guardian.co.uk
