The extraterrestrial rock is tumbling through space alongside thousands of similar objects in our solar system's main asteroid belt, roughly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

The Catalina Sky Survey detects potentially hazardous asteroids and comets. Now a spin-off survey is finding a windfall of "optical transients" in the same data.

By Renee Koury, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Jan. 12--A 60-year-old driver was killed on northbound Highway 101 in Mountain View early this morning when his car skidded across six lanes of traffic and crashed into a center divider, according the California Highway Patrol.