NASA Issues Warning About Three Skyscraper-Sized Asteroids Approaching Earth, But All Will Miss Us
A trio of enormous asteroids, including two ‘potentially hazardous’ ones, will cross Earth’s orbit around the sun this week, according to NASA. Here’s what that means. An artist’s impression of a near-Earth asteroid. (Image credit: Science Photo Library – ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI via Getty Images) Our solar system is home to millions of renegade space rocks, and this week three particularly large ones will blaze past Earth. But don’t worry – the closest one will still miss our planet by a comfy 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers), or about 10 times the average distance between Earth and the moon, according to NASA. On Monday (Feb. 27), an asteroid named 2012 DK31 will sail past our planet at a distance of about 3 million miles (4.8 million km). The asteroid measures an estimated 450 feet (137 meters) across, or about as wide as a 40-story skyscraper is tall, and its orbit around the sun crosses Earth’s orbit eve...