BIGGEST Asteroid to Hit EARTH on September Warns NASA . Big asteroid to safely pass by Earth on September 1 .
WASHINGTON A large near-Earth asteroid will pass safely by our planet on September 1, at a distance of about seven million kilometres, NASA has said.
Asteroid Florence -- named in honour of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing -- is about 4.4 kilometres in size, according to measurements from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the asteroids and comets hunting NEOWISE mission.
"While many known asteroids have passed by closer to Earth than Florence will on September 1, all of those were estimated to be smaller," said Paul Chodas, Manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
"Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the NASA programme to detect and track near-Earth asteroids began," Chodas said.
The 2017 encounter is the closest by this asteroid since 1890 and the closest it will ever be until after 2500.... [READ MORE]
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