Stadium-sized asteroid to zoom past Earth on Saturday: 5 things to know

(The Hill) — An asteroid the size of a football stadium cut a path between Earth and the moon Saturday morning — the second of two astronomical near-collisions in three days. Near miss is a relative term in this case: Saturday’s asteroid, 2024 MK, came within 300,000 kilometers of Earth. On Thursday, asteroid 2011 UL21 … Read more