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Asteroid 'bigger than London Bridge' set to collide with Earth's orbit next week

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NASA is tracking an asteroid which is potentially bigger than London Bridge and set to collide with Earth's orbit next week.

The asteroid, called 2014 QJ33, is expected to fly-by our planet on September 17.It is classed as an Apollo asteroid, the name given to space rocks which cross the orbit of the Earth.

This is in comparison to Amor asteroids which cross the orbit of Mars, but not Earth.The giant space rock is a Near Earth Object (NEO), which NASA say refers to any comet or asteroid that hurtles at 1.3 astronomical units - the average distance between Earth and the Sun.Asteroid 2014 QJ33 is expected to pass our planet safely at a distance of 6.67 lunar units.

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