A humongous space rock will safely zoom by Earth on Tuesday.
The asteroid will make its closest approach at approximately 1:51 p.m. PST, coming within 1.23 million miles of Earth, according to afrom the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies , managed by NASA at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. That's slightly more than five times the distance to the Moon. The asteroid will be moving at a speed of nearly 12 miles per second
is approximately 3,470 feet wide — which is more three times the height of San Francisco's Salesforce building. By comparison, the asteroid that is believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs was over 32,000 feet wide, McKeegan said."Don't Look Up," featuring two astronomers who discover that a comet is headed straight for Earth. Although 7482 is still large and will come close to Earth, McKeegan said that"there is no risk of impact on this or any future close approaches for at least 200 years."
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