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Neil Shaw & Nicola Roy

'Potentially hazardous' asteroid size of Big Ben to hurtle past Earth tonight

An asteroid travelling at 29,000mph will pass by our planet tonight in what NASA has described as a 'near-Earth' approach.

Asteroid 2023 JD2 is classed as 'potentially hazardous' because of how big it is, and how close it will get to Earth. It's estimated that it's around the size of the Big Ben at around 200 ft large, and it'll fly past our planet just 3.4 million miles away.

It's set to appear at around 8pm tonight (Tuesday May 16) and is one of around 1,500 'potentially hazardous' asteroids that are currently known about.

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