Moment 3,500ft asteroid zooms past Earth in closest approach for almost 90 years

An astronomer has captured footage of a huge asteroid 3,451 feet in diameter as it made its closest approach to Earth in almost 90 years.

Asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) could be seen as a small white dot as it travelled towards our planet.

At 21:51 GMT on January 18, the asteroid made its closest approach to Earth since 1933, coming within 1.2 million miles of our planet.