"CITY KILLER" CLOSER THAN HIT THE EARTH And Scientists had no Idea

"City killer" asteroid misses Earth — and scientists had no idea Scientists revealed an asteroid dubbed by some as a "city killer" came closer to the Earth than the moon this week The Washington Post reported that scientists apparently had no idea it was coming Asteroid 2019 OK came hurtling toward Earth at a speed of nearly 15 miles a second before flying past According to NASA it was about 45000 miles from Earth on Thursday"It would have hit with over 30 times the energy of the atomic blast at Hiroshima," astronomer professor Alan Duffy told the Sydney Morning Herald. Duffy called the zooming space rock a "city killer."Astronomers say it posed no immediate threat but they admit they had no idea the giant rock was headed our way because it came from the direction of the sun .