An asteroid the size of a mountain has narrowly missed a collision with Earth while travelling at tremendous speeds. The mile-wide space rock was travelling at 19,000mph when it made its closest approach to the Earth at 10.56am Wednesday morning.
NASA said the asteroid - known as (52768) 1998 OR2 - was expected to be just 3.9million miles away, or 16 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Although the asteroid is classified as a potentially hazardous object (PHO), scientists have said it won't put the planet at risk.
Dr Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at the Australian National University, said: "This asteroid poses no danger to the Earth and will not hit — it is one catastrophe we won't have. "While it is big, it is still