AN asteroid the size of an Olympic swimming pool has had a close shave with Earth, racing past at a distance of just 17,200 miles.
The 50-metre-wide space rock – dubbed a "city killer" because it would be capable of crushing an average metropolis on impact – came closer to the planet than any other object of a similar size ever has.
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