It’s expected to whiz by at a speed of roughly 9 million miles per second. The distance is close compared to our nearest neighbor Venus, which is 70 million miles away. Of the asteroids headed our way, “1996 VB3” - which has a diameter of about 750 feet - is expected to come closest to Earth, at a distance of only 2.1 million miles, according to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Objects. The space rock “2004 UE,” which at 1,246 feet is only a few feet shorter than the Midtown skyscraper, will be 2.6 million miles away on Nov. Massive asteroids - including one the size of the Empire State Building - are predicted to make “close” encounters with Earth in the coming weeks, with one set to whiz by as early as Wednesday night. Latest study says there’s no trace of life in 4-billion-year-old meteorite from Mars How to watch massive, kilometer-wide asteroid pass by Earth todayĪstronomers witness red supergiant star’s death for the first time New space telescope reaches final stop million miles out
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