We are about to have a close call with a huge asteroid, but don't worry, it's not going to be like the movie "Don't Look Up."
According to Live Science, the asteroid is double the length of the Empire State building and is considered potentially hazardous.
The asteroid will be visible with a small telescope, even though it won't hit Earth. That is pretty cool.
On January 18 an asteroid twice the size of the Empire State Building will zoom by Earth safely at about 1.2 million miles.
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The closest pass in two centuries.
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The latest in space is January 13, 2022.
Look out.
On January 18 at 4:51 pm Eastern time, the asteroid, known officially as (7482) 1994 PC1, will make it a Near-Earth object.
NASA's Asteroid Watch says that if a asteroid is more than 140 meters in size, it is considered to be potentially hazardous.
According to NASA, there are over 30,000 known NEOs that are at least 465 feet wide, with 3,000 new reports being made each year.
I will be back.
This is not the first time this asteroid has screamed. It came within a million miles of Earth in 1933, and will come again in 2105, according to NASA.
NASA says we should be safe and sound for the next 100 years or so, even though interest in asteroids is always spicy.
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