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·2014 RC will be above New Zealand at 20.18 BST during closest approach
·Amateur astronomers with telescopes might be able to see it graze past
·Asteroid 2014 RC, which is 60ft (20 metres), is not expected to hit Earth
·But its orbit will bring it back to our planet's neighbourhood in the future
·News comes just days after Brian Cox told MailOnline that the world is ill-equipped to deal with asteroid threats

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2743450/Asteroid-close-shave-Earth-Sunday-Rock-come-TEN-TIMES-closer-planet-moon.html#ixzz3CNO1Qtex
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At the time of closest approach, asteroid 2014 RC will be one-tenth the distance from the centre of Earth to the moon, or about 25,000 miles (40,000km).

Now just got to hope for better weather on Sunday night. Unable to find any positional data so far, the heliocentric app at NASA crashes my work IE9 so will try again tonight from home using IE11