A giant asteroid the size of a skyscraper is set to crash through Earth's atmosphere in just over a week. The huge rock, name Asteroid 2013 YD48, has been identified by NASA as a “potentially hazardous object”.
Approximately 104metres wide - making it larger than Big Ben - the rock is on track to pass our planet on January 11 from a distance of 3.48 million miles.
This may seem like a sizeable margin, however in terms of space, it is not so substantial. In fact, NASA deem anything that passes within 120million miles of our planet as a Near-Earth Object (NEO), according to the Mirror.
Due to the distances they fly in from, tiny changes in their trajectories could be literally fatal for Earth.Scientists track thousands of these to observe
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