Jun 26, 2012 06:53 AM EDT
Asteroid 2012 LZ1 Bigger than Predicted
The near Earth Asteroid that popped onto the astronomer's radar on the night of June 10-11 was supposed to fly by the earth on June 14. This hazardous asteroid was spotted by Rob McNaught and his colleagues, who were peering through the Uppsala Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Austr...