NASA tracking giant asteroid set to collide with Earth's orbit at 44,000mph
dailystar.co.ukNASA’s Centre for Near Earth Objects claims. Asteroids routinely come into close contact with Earth, and NASA’s NEO centre tracks them all in a table.The space rocks are usually on the small side, under 150m, but the space station has identified a big one, and it’s set to collide with Earth’s orbit.According to the table, asteroid 1999 RM45 will zip safely past Earth on March 2 at around 7.52pm Eastern Standard time, the equivalent to 12.53am on March 3 in Greenwich Mean Time.1999 RM45 will be travelling at a whopping speed of 20.4 kilometres per second, 44,828 miles per hour.It is estimated to between 310m and 680m and is classed as an Apollo asteroid.An Apollo asteroid is one that comes into contact with Earth’s orbit as it passes through.
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