An asteroid roughly the same size as a double decker bus will hurtle past the Earth tonight in one of the 'closest ever' encounters of its kind.
The rock, known as 2023 BU, was only recently discovered by astronomers. It's expected to pass over South America tonight at around the same distance as the UK to Cyprus, or approximately 2,200 miles away.
And despite this being 10 times closer than any of the communication satellites that are surrounding the earth right now, experts have assured that there is no chance of it hitting our planet.
