posted February 15, 2013 02:01 PM            

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21442863

(685) By Jason Palmer
Science and technology reporter, BBC News

An asteroid as large as an Olympic swimming pool will race past the Earth on Friday at a distance of just 27,700km (17,200mi) - the closest ever predicted for an object of that size.

It will pass closer even than the geosynchronous satellites that orbit the Earth, but there is no risk of impacts or collisions.

Its closest approach will be 19:25 GMT.

For regions in darkness around that time, it will be visible using good binoculars or a telescope.

The asteroid's arrival was preceded by a damaging meteor event in Russia on Friday - but indications from the meteor's path suggest that the two events are entirely unrelated - just a "cosmic coincidence", as Alan Fitzsimmons of Queens University Belfast told BBC News.

posted February 15, 2013 03:04 PM            

She quoted someone else saying that 'comets' come and sweep negativity from the etheric atmospheres... They have cleansing properties.

Don't we need that visit in today's world? Perhaps the visitations of 3 near-earth comets this year will bring us to the edge of evolutional changes we need for the betterment of our global world, inside and out...