A giant asteroid is set to fly past the Earth the day after Christmas, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies. Fortunately, there is no chance that the space rock—known as 310442 —will strike our planet. At its closest approach it will come within 4.5 million miles of our planet, or about 19 times the Earth-moon distance.
Based on its brightness, the asteroid is estimated to measure between 919 and 2,034 feet in diameter, making it bigger than One World Trade Center in New York—the tallest building the United States—which stands at a height of 1,776 feet.
The data also shows that the asteroid will speed past the Earth at around 27,500 miles per hour.
Scientists know CH59's orbit around the sun very well and projections indicate that it has no chance of colliding with our planet in the next century or so.
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