Jetliner-Sized Asteroid Set To ‘Nearly Miss’ Earth On October 12

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — As if the biblical predictions of doomsday in September and October weren’t enough, an asteroid is scheduled to make an uncomfortably close pass by the planet on October 12.
The large space rock, named asteroid 2012 TC4, is 30 to 100 feet in length and will be about 27,000 miles away from the planet when it streaks by. That’s about one-eighth of the distance between Earth and the moon. NASA has been tracking the object since they discovered it five years ago a