Hmm. Ok i'm confused,

Russian Metor 30-50Km above ground, caused massive fireball and (probably) exploded in the air.

2012 DA14 will pass within about 17,200 miles, thats approx 27Km, but nothing to worry about!

What am I missing here? (apart from my morning coffee ;) )

What am I missing here?

From a quick google search:

The asteroid will pass 27,700 km (17,200 mi) from the surface of Earth.

So.. perhaps a factor of 1000? :)

What am I missing here?

You are missing a few decimals.

17,200 miles is approx. 27,000Km

Interesting meteorite falls

Opps, thanks Madhed and Milcho. In my head I treated 50km as 50,000km for some stupid reason. I knew something was wrong, just couldn't see it - I blame lack of coffee ;)

At least the Earth is safe for another day ;)

30-50 km? That looked something like a few hundred meters on the video.

Pretty cool though. I'd love to see something like that.

Milcho, on 15 Feb 2013 - 07:03, said:
And on a hilarious note, one of the Russian party leaders apparently called this "a test of new American weapons,"

Better watch out Russia. We're gonna break ALL the windows.

I also saw the video and uaaauu! That closed, right next to us? Makes you wonder how fast the dinosaurs disappeared.

Things like this remind me of how vulnerable we still are from these dangers. Tracking the big ones is one thing, but do we still have a ways to go from being able to plan the mitigation of future impacts from them?

Milcho, on 15 Feb 2013 - 07:03, said:
And on a hilarious note, one of the Russian party leaders apparently called this "a test of new American weapons,"

Better watch out Russia. We're gonna break ALL the windows.

Petty vandalism, ftw!
...but we forgot to spray-paint "Kilroy was here" on the meteor.