[cripplecreek]

This near miss is nearly 9 times as far away as the moon. Its near in the astronomical sense but still millions of miles away.

[Paul R.]

Right, that’s why I put “near-miss” in quotation marks. :-)

It’s just “close” enough to be slightly uncomfortable that it was not re-acquired, and it was last tracked (apparently) in 2000 (according to Wikipedia, anyway.)