meteor

With more reports of things flying and dropping from the sky, should we be afraid of meteors and asteroids?  One astronomer says we should, at the very least, be concerned.

It is said to have lasted only as long as three seconds but many in the Miami-Dade and Broward areas witnessed a "ball of light" in the sky over the weekend.

A close flying asteroid traveling within 17,000 miles of Earth is on its way out. The massive rock was the length of half a football field and in the same area as some of the world's orbiting TV and weather satellites. Gay Yee Hill, from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, described the moment the asteroid scooted by...