Probably not, but ...


-- Recently Discovered Near-Earth Asteroid Makes Record-breaking Approach to
Earth

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=13867

"A small near-Earth asteroid (NEA), discovered Monday night by the
NASA-funded LINEAR asteroid survey, will
make the closest approach to Earth ever recorded. There is  no danger of a
collision with the Earth during this
encounter. The object, designated 2004 FH, is roughly 30 meters (100 feet)
in diameter and will pass  just
43,000 km (26,500 miles, or about 3.4 Earth diameters) above the Earth's
surface on  March 18th at 5:08 PM
EST (2:08 PM PST, 22:08 UTC)."

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But somebody did:

Space Weather News for March 19, 2004
http://spaceweather.com

ASTEROID MOVIE:  When asteroid 2004 FH flew past Earth yesterday, just
43,000 km from our planet's surface, it was bright enough to see through
backyard telescopes.  Visit Spaceweather.com to watch a movie of the space
rock racing among the stars only a few hours after closest approach.

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