Asteroid bigger than Statue of Liberty to enter Earth's orbit at 38,000mph on Thursday

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asteroid bigger than the Statue of Liberty that's due to skim past our planet this week.The space agency's Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies confirmed the space rock on its website, and according to the European Space Agency, it was only discovered on May 3 by the Mount Lemmon Survey.Named 2021 JF1, the asteroid is zooming through the galaxy at 38,000mph according to NASA's NEO Earth Close Approaches list.NASA says that the estimated diameter of 2021 JF1 is between 95 and 210m, potentially making it bigger than the Statue of Liberty in New York which stands 93m high.It will pass around 3.2million miles from Earth at 1.11am on Thursday, May 27, according to NASA data.That may sound far, but it’s relatively close in space terms - and NASA.