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Sky and Telescope: "http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/Sma ... 81431.html]Small Asteroid 2014 AA Hits Earth"

TL;DR: An asteroid discovered 01:16 UTC 1 January 2014 hit the Earth at ~02:30 UTC 2 January 2014. Luckily, it was smaller than the one over Chelyabinsk.

Of course, this won't increase funding for near-Earth asteroid detection. It didn't do any appreciable damage, after all...
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
I've seen one that made me wish for a Russian dashcam shortly afterwards. However at the time I was closing one eye and looking for a safe bit of roadside to rapidly veer onto.

CrimsonKMR

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