Updated: 2023-01-26 16:42:44
There was no reason for alarm, as a NASA engineer called it "one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded." It was only 2,200 miles above the Earth's surface.
Updated: 2023-01-10 08:58:20
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