NASA scientists have said that a huge asteroid will fly past Earth on Monday.
Space.com reported that the asteroid set to zip past is the size of a mountain and at 745,000 miles will be the closet to come within the distance of Earth until 2027. That distance is approximately three times the distance from our planet to the moon.
"For objects that get this close, that are this large, the radar observations are really analogous to a spacecraft flyby in terms of the caliber of the data that we can get," said Lance Benner of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who is the principal investigator for the Goldstone observations of the asteroid.
Good Morning America noted that Asteroid 2004 BL86, which measures more than 1,500 feet across, will safely fly past the planet at 11:19 p.m. EST. However, the massive celestial rock will not be visible to the naked eye, only telescopes and very strong binoculars may capture a glimpse.
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