It is passing close enough to be recorded as a ‘near-Earth object.’
NASA has said: “NEOs are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth’s neighbourhood.
“The scientific interest in comets and asteroids is due largely to their status as the relatively unchanged remnant debris from the solar system formation processes some 4.6 billion years ago.”A near-Earth object is anything that comes within 1.3 astronomical units – 120.8 million miles – of the sun and hence within 0.3 AU of Earth’s orbit.The asteroid will be 2.
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