Earth narrowly dodges three large asteroids

A car-sized asteroid narrowly missed the Earth on Monday, January 30, six days after another asteroid the size of a house had a similar near-miss, and 10 days after a third passed by that was about the size of a killer whale. This artist’s rendition released 20 April, 2005 by NASA shows a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun Asteroid 2017 BH30 zipped past the Earth just 32,200 miles away at its closest approach.