Locals in Glasgow may be able to see an asteroid the size of a double decker bus tonight (January 26).
The asteroid will narrowly pass Earth in one of the closest such encounters ever recorded, says NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).
Given the name 2023 BU, the asteroid will soar over the southern tip of South America at about 4:27 p.m. PST (7:27 p.m. EST) only 2,200 miles (3,600 kilometers) above the planet’s surface and well within the orbit of geosynchronous satellites - nearly the same distance as the UK to Cyprus, or London to Cairo.
