Asteroid whizzes by Earth within 'ring of satellites' reveals NASA

An asteroid has passed so close to earth it was within the ring ofsatellitesand NASA only discovered six hours before it arrived,NASAhas revealed .

The rock, named 2017 EA, made its closest approach to Earth at 6.04am US West Coasttime at an altitude of only 9000 miles above the eastern PacificOcean."A small near-Earth asteroid less than 3 meters (10 feet) across whizzed safely past Earth today at a distance so close that it passed well inside the ring of geosynchronous satellites," theCenter for Near Earth Object Studies said."At its closest point, this asteroid was 20 times closer than the Moon; it then quickly moved into the daytime sky and can no longer be observedby ground-based telescopes."Digital painting of a large asteroid colliding with Earth

According to NASA, 2017 EA was originally detected only 6 hours before closest approach by astronomers.This detection was made by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey, near Tucson, Arizona.It was observed by several other observatories before it passed into the Earth’s shadow just before closest approach.