JUST ADVANCE SCOUTS FOR #SMOD2016: A large asteroid will come TEN times nearer to Earth than the moon today. “An asteroid will pass extremely near our planet today. The 32ft (10 metre) long asteroid will pass by at a distance of one tenth of the distance between Earth and the moon. This close encounter will be followed by a much larger asteroid, 200ft (61 metres) long, that is set to pass us by in just a few days. . . . The Virtual Telescope project discovered the asteroid yesterday, and says when it passes Earth the asteroid will be visible from the southern hemisphere only.”