Huge asteroid to zip ‘near’ Earth on Wednesday
It’s a near-miss in space terms.
A 2,000-foot-long asteroid, almost twice the size of the Rose Bowl, will zip safely past Earth on Wednesday at a distance of about 1.1 million miles, about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon. Although there is no possibility the asteroid colliding with our planet, it will be a very close approach for an asteroid of this size, NASA said.
Wednesday night, asteroid 2014 JO25 will pass though the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices in the eastern sky.
An artist’s conception of an asteroid whizzing by the Earth in 2013. (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech)
An artist’s conception of an asteroid whizzing by the Earth in 2013. (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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