There are no known immediate threats to the Earth as an asteroid impact, but the planet seems to have received a number of flies of the latter. In February this year, the Earth was its closest near-miss asteroid 2011 CQ1 avoid a collision with the earth is only 3405 miles. Now, another shave today is expected within 7500 miles, which puts it near Earth asteroid, the Moon (32x closer, in fact) and in the same area as a series of communications satellites and television. How scary is that asteroid was only discovered earlier last week.

Asteroid

The asteroid designated MD 2011 and was discovered by a pair of robotic telescopes that are part of the research of near Earth asteroids MIT Lincoln (linear). It is still unclear,

Asteroid Passes Earth Closer Than The Moon