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Pandora Dewan

Massive, 'potentially hazardous' asteroid due to make closest-ever approach to Earth tonight — and you can watch it live

An asteroid approaches Earth from space.

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of a football stadium will zoom past our planet in the early hours tomorrow morning (Dec. 4) — and you can watch it live.

The gigantic space rock, which is traveling at roughly 27,500 miles per hour (44,300 kilometers per hour), will reach a minimum distance of 1.37 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) from Earth at 0:27 ET — its closest approach to our planet on record, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

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