The larger of the two asteroids will come within around 630,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.
Two large asteroids are set to sail safely past Earth next tomorrow, according to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies .
The asteroid—which is estimated to measure anywhere between 98 and 223 feet in diameter—will be traveling at speeds of around 50,000 miles per hour relative to the Earth. This is the sixth closest approach to our planet by any near-Earth object in the next year, NASA data shows. In fact, the space rock—which measures anywhere between 250 and 558 feet in diameter—will speed past at a distance which is just over two-and-a-half times greater than Earth-moon distance.2019 OU1 will not make another close approach to the Earth until December 2080—when it will only come within about 20 million miles of our planet, at most.
The CNEOS computes the orbits of known NEOs to determine whether any have a chance of striking the Earth at some point in the future. Those which are predicted to have a minimum approach distance of less than 0.05 astronomical units and potentially measure more than 460 feet in diameter—like 2019 OU1—are deemed"potentially hazardous."
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