A giant asteroid is going pass earth this week

As if we hadn't enough on our plate

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As the price of fuel, food, stamps, rent continues to rise, at least we can look to the night sky and see a humongous lump of space rock hurtling towards us.

A giant asteroid about four times bigger than London's Shard is heading in our direction and is set to (thankfully) scoot on past us later this week.

NASA  has classified the lump of rock, named '2001 CB21' as a "Potentially Hazardous Asteroid" due to its predicted close pass with Earth.

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (138971) #2001CB21 was captured last night while safely approaching us. Here they are our latest image ? and video ?️
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— Virtual Telescope (@VirtualTelescop) February 24, 2022

And while NASA considers it to be a close pass to our planet, it'll actually be passing around three million miles away from Earth, which is 12 times the distance between the Moon and the Earth.

Nevertheless, if you're out with a telescope just before 8am on March 4th, you should be able to see it track across the sky.