
Asteroid can narrowly miss Earth in February 2013, but may destroy satellites Madrid, May 20: Astronomers at the LaSagra Observatory in Spain have disclosed that a newly discovered 150-foot-wide asteroid may come so close to the Earth in February that it might hit satellites, Daily Mail reported. The asteroid named 2012 DA14 can come close enough to Earth to potentially disrupt geosynchronous satellites on February 15, 2013.However, NASA says the chance of the asteroid hitting Earth is 0.031 percent.But if it did, it would hit with the force of a 2.4 megaton explosion, similar to the mysterious Tunguska event of 1908 which leveled hundreds...