SATELLITE SCRAPER?
"Newly-discovered asteroid 2012 KT42 [click for pic] is flying past Earth today … only ~14,000 km above the planet's surface," reports SpaceWeather.com. That's roughly 8,700 miles, or not quite 0.00014 astronomical units (AU), or about 5 percent of the distance from Earth's surface to Luna's (~0.05 LD ( Read more... )