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A large, pyramid-sized asteroid is making its way towards Earth and will swing by for a close approach tomorrow, NASA has announced.
Known as asteroid 2019 XF, the formidable rock is hurtling through the void of space at phenomenal speeds of nearly 54,000 mph and will arrive in our planet’s vicinity late at night on December 17. The sizeable asteroid is expected to reach its closest point to Earth at 11:13 p.m. ET. However, NASA assures that the upcoming flyby will be a perfectly safe one, as the rock will only come within a safe distance of 2.2 million miles from the planet’s surface. To put that into perspective, that’s 9.3 times the distance between Earth and the moon.