Yes, Asteroid 86666.

Yes, Asteroid 86666 Is Headed Our Way. No, It Doesn't Pose Any Danger
Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: Oct 10, 2015 18:16 IST

A giant asteroid - around 2.5 kms in diameter - is heading towards Earth. An asteroid of its size has the potential to cause global devastation if it was to hit Earth, but Nasa said the space rock poses no danger to us.
Termed Asteroid 86666 (2000 FL10),it is due to make its closest pass on Saturday, Daily Mail reported.
All asteroids are monitored by Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab's Near-Earth Object Observations programme.
The programme keeps track of the orbits of comets and asteroids and publishes warnings if one of these rocks is due to collide with Earth, or will come close to doing so.
The programme's official Twitter handle addressed the speculation surrounding Asteroid 86666 by saying: "In response to Qs, asteroid 86666 will safely pass Earth Oct 10 by over 15 million mi/25 million km. It poses zero threat."
The orbits of Earth and the asteroid began to significantly coincide at the start of September; they reach their closest points this weekend and throughout the course of next week.
They are then shown moving away from each other by mid-November.
Asteroid 86666 was first spotted 16 years ago in March 2000 by the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona.
In August, Nasa was forced to post a blog dispelling the countless rumours and speculation about asteroids that were due to pass the Earth in September.
This speculation suggested that an asteroid would impact Earth, sometime between September 15-28 near Puerto Rico.
Paul Chodas, manager of Nasa's Near-Earth Object office, was reported as saying at the time that there was "no scientific basis or shred of evidence" to confirm those rumours.
He added that there would be no Earth impacts "anytime in the foreseeable future" and all known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids have less than a "0.01 per cent chance of impacting Earth in the next 100 years".

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