Asteroid expected to fly safely by Earth

An tremendous asteroid that is astir arsenic ample arsenic 2 Empire State Buildings is expected to safely walk by Earth connected Tuesday astronomers say.

NASA classifies the entity arsenic "potentially hazardous," yet the asteroid is expected to determination past our satellite safely astatine 43,754 mph astatine a region of 1.2 cardinal miles distant from Earth, according to NASA.

While the region from Earth sounds safe, astronomers inactive see it adjacent for an entity of its size. Scientists accidental determination is nary information of a collision with Earth but that the entity is inactive classified arsenic having the imaginable to beryllium hazardous.

The Virtual Telescope Project, based successful Italy's superior metropolis Rome, volition unrecorded watercourse the asteroid, called 7482 (1994 PC1), arsenic it passes Earth. Streaming was acceptable to statesman unrecorded astatine 3 p.m. EST connected Tuesday conscionable earlier the entity is astatine its closest attack to Earth.

Virtual Telescope Project's laminitis Gianluca Masi wrote connected their livestream leafage that the "Virtual Telescope Project volition amusement it unrecorded online, conscionable astatine the fly-by time, erstwhile it volition highest successful brightness."

According to Live Science, 7482 (1994 PC1) volition marque its closest attack to our satellite Tuesday astatine 4:51 p.m. EST.

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