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From: Savant12/3/2024 4:44:38 PM
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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.

*no worries, it won't hit earth
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).

The historic flyby can be watched via a free livestream from the Virtual Telescope Project (VTP) which starts at 13:30 ET today (Dec. 3).

2020 XR will also be visible to 8 inch (20 centimeter) telescopes,

according to a statement by the European Space Agency (ESA)

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