CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid the size of a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday.
please do not worry. It will pass seven times the distance from Earth to the Moon, so there is no chance of it hitting us.
NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Research estimates that the space rock is between 690 feet and 1,575 feet in diameter. That means this asteroid could be as large as New York City’s Empire State Building or Chicago’s Willis Tower.
This asteroid was discovered in 2008 and designated 2008 OS7. It won’t come back to us until 2032, but it will remain much further away, 45 million miles away.
The harmless flyby was one of several we encountered this week. Three much smaller asteroids, less than a few dozen yards in diameter, will also hit Earth harmlessly on Friday, and two more will hit Earth on Saturday. On Sunday, an asteroid roughly half the size of 2008 0S7 will pass by, remaining 4.5 million miles away.
Source: www.nbcnews.com
