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An asteroid about 900 meters in diameter will have what in astronomical terms is considered a “close encounter” with Earth today.
The closest to Earth will be two million kilometers away, according to the US space agency NASA.
But the Agency says there is no threat of a collision with our planet “now or for centuries to come.”
But he said it is close enough that the asteroid, named 2001 FO32, is classified as a “potentially dangerous asteroid.”
NASA says it will pass about 124,000 kilometers per hour, faster than the speed at which most asteroids meet Earth.
The asteroid will be closest to Earth around 1600 GMT on Sunday, according to the Paris Observatory, France’s largest astronomical research center.
The asteroid will be brighter as it moves through the southern skies.
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid roughly twice the diameter of Paris crashed into Earth, killing 75 percent of life on the planet.
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