Asteroid bigger than Great Pyramid of Giza to crash into Earth's orbit this week
dailystar.co.ukasteroid 20% larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo is set to make a close approach to the Earth next week.The 520-foot space rock designated was only discovered this year and astronomers have named it 2021 SM3.The object has been classified by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a near-Earth object or NEO.An NEO is any asteroid or comet that comes within a distance of around 120 million miles of Earth.Astronomers pay special attention to these objects because their paths through space could potentially be perturbed by Earth’s gravity, making their future courses unpredictable.2021 SM3’s closest approach this year will bring it to within 3 million miles of Earth – further away than The Moon but a good deal closer than “neighbouring”.
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