The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA car-sized asteroid just made history as it swooped closer to earth without crashing than any other rock on record.And NASA revealed it didn’t see the huge space rock until after it flew past.One expert admitted: “We didn’t see it coming”.The newly discovered asteroid made the closest-known zoom past earth without smashing into the planet.It whizzed passed at just 1,830 miles above the southern Indian ocean.Known as asteroid 2020QG, it zoomed over us on Sunday night.
The US space agency said if it's trajectory would have been any different it would have become a fireball as it broke up entering the atmosphere.The Palomar Observatory.
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