Asteroid to fly by Earth today as NASA prepares to monitor 'near' approach
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dailystar.co.ukasteroid is set to fly past Earth today, and NASA is keeping a look out for it. It looks like the space rock will fly past the planet at a distance of 429,846 miles, around 200,000 miles further away than the Moon is to Earth on average.The space rock is travelling at an impressive speed of 5.2km per second, the equivalent of almost 19,000km per hour (11,807mph).It is only around six metres wide according to observations from NASA and if it impacted the Earth it would simply burn up in the atmosphere of the planet, appearing as if it were a shooting star.
After flying past Earth the rock, named 2020 WC4, will continue on its voyage around the Sun, the Express Online reports. NASA has classified it as a near Earth object (NEO), which allows.
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