Our planet had a near miss this weekend with an asteroid. The asteroid was not detected until about nine hours before it got to us.
This really was a near miss. The asteroid came 11,000 miles from hitting the planet. That means the asteroid was lower than our satellites in space. Our satellites are for the most part 25,000 miles above the surface of the planet, so the asteroid was below them.
In flying rock terms, that was close.....LOL
Source for the story was Alex Jones, at either prison planet.com or info wars.com