An asteroid as tall as the Eiffel Tower is coming toward Earth in December. Almost triple the size of a football pitch, the asteroid named 4660 Nereus is classified as a 'Potentially Hazardous Asteroid' (PHA).NASA 's asteroid monitor predicts it will come close to Earth on December 11.
Impact from the asteroid could be devastating, but thankfully, it dose not pose a threat to the planet.The asteroid will fly by the planet at a distance 3.9 million kilometres - a distance greater than 10 times of that between the Earth and the moon.Nereus is 330 metres long, which makes it larger than 90% of asteroids, but tiny compared to large asteroids, according to Space Reference.The asteroid orbits the sun every 664 days though it is predicted not to
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