A newly discovered asteroid by the Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, AZ will safely fly by Earth this evening around 6:06pm CST. At the closest approach the asteroid will be about 223,000 miles away from the Earth, which is about 9/10ths the distance to the moon. According to Don Yeoman, from NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,fly bys of near-Earth objects within the moon's orbit occur every few weeks. You can read more about asteroids by clicking here. Too bad clouds will stick around through a good part of the evening.
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