A gigantic 'potentially hazardous' asteroid that may be twice the size of the Empire State Building is set to zoom past Earth Thursday (April 28), according to NASA.
Related:NASA flags any space object that comes within 120 million miles of Earth as a"near-Earth object" and any fast-moving object within 4.65 million miles as"potentially hazardous".
The incoming space rock was first discovered on 12 January 2008, by asteroid surveyors at the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter observatory in Arizona and last zipped past Earth on 1 March 2015, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies . That title will likely go to 467460 , which has an estimated diameter between 1,247 and 2,822 feet and will be traveling at roughly 25,300 mph when it passes us on 9 May 2022.
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