Asteroids in fiction
After Ceres, Asteroid 433 Eros is perhaps the most-commonly mentioned asteroid, probably because it is one of the largest near-Earth asteroids.
2018 GE3
In observational history, and other than possibly 2002 MN and , this asteroid is the largest known object to ever pass that close to Earth, as well as the Moon "(also see History of closest approaches of large near-Earth objects)". 99942 Apophis will break both of these records when it approaches only from Earth on 13 April 2029.