http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... earth.html
An asteroid as strong as 15 atomic bombs whizzed past earth last night at just ten times the distance of the moon.
Astronomers first spotted the cigar-shaped rock spinning through space on Monday evening and tracked it.
The star-gazers were baffled by why the asteroid 'blinked' at them until they realised that due to is long shape, the darkness came when it rotated slightly out of view.. . . . more

