Comment Re:Distance discrepency (Score 3, Informative) 101
From TFA
At its close approach, the 60-foot (20 meters) asteroid will fly about 25,000 miles (40,000 km) from the center of Earth. The average radius of the Earth (the distance from the center of the planet to its surface) is about 3,959 miles (6,371 km).
Geostationary orbit is ~42,164 km from the center of Earth, so TFS is correct based on this info.