Big Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Has Its Own Moon (Photo, Video)

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 08:01 in Astronomy & Space

Asteroid 2004 BL86 cruised within 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) of Earth Monday morning — about 3 times the distance between our planet and the moon. And the space rock wasn't alone.

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