The hefty space rock, known as 2006 HV5, is around 1,000 feet wide and will hurtle past our planet at around 39,000 mph.
A"potentially hazardous" asteroid that spans the length of the Eiffel Tower will shoot past Earth today . But fear not, the enormous space rock will sail safely past our planet, according to NASA.
2006 HV5 is estimated to be around 1,007 feet wide, plus or minus 249 feet , according to CNEOS. The Eiffel Tower stands at 1,082 feet . Related: 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid that recently zipped past Earth is an elongated weirdo with an odd rotation But even if one of these goliaths was headed straight for Earth, NASA is now fairly confident it could push the errant space rock off course thanks to the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, which successfully redirected an asteroid by smashing a spacecraft into it in September 2022. —Could an asteroid destroy Earth?
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