An asteroid larger than the Empire State Building is heading towards the Earth and will pass our planet this weekend. NASA has designated the rock, called 388945 (2008 TZ3), a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid because of its relative proximity to Earth.
The asteroid will pass by on Sunday, May 15 as part of its orbit of the sun, It passes close to the Earth every 732 days and two years ago came within 2.75million kilometers of our planet.
This time it is expected to be around 4million kilometers away.