Rock travelers Earth

Asteroid safely passes Earth - but 13 more space rocks will zip past us this week

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This morning, an enormous asteroid that was over a mile wide safely passed our planet. The asteroid, dubbed 52768 (1998 OR2), made its closest approach to Earth at around 10:56 BST today, at which point it was around 3.9 million miles from Earth.

While this might sound far, it’s actually classed as a ‘close approach’ by NASA. The enormous asteroid is estimated to measure between 1.8km - 4.1km in diameter.

At the higher end of that estimate, it suggests the asteroid could be up to five times as big as the world’s biggest building, the Burj Khalifa!

During today’s passing, the asteroid was travelling at staggering speeds of of 19,438 miles/hour - that’s around 9.5 times faster than a bullet!

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