An asteroid about the size of a small house passed just 88,000 kilometres from the Earth on Saturday 27 September - the closest approach of a natural object ever recorded. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994228 The archive and Web site for our list is at http://www.meteorobs.org To stop getting all email from the 'meteorobs' lists, use our Webform: http://www.meteorobs.org/subscribe.html