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The speeding asteroid will pass about 2 million kilometers from the Earth at a speed of about 70,000 kilometers per hour

The potentially hazardous asteroid 1994 PC1 will fly past Earth on January 18th. It's bright enough to see in a 4-inch telescope.

The asteroid, which is about 1 kilometre in diameter and 2.5 times the height of the Empire State Building in the US, has been dubbed potentially hazardous.

The asteroid, which is about 1 kilometre in diameter and 2.5 times the height of the Empire State Building in the US, has been dubbed potentially hazardous.

An asteroid, which measures 1.05 kilometres across will make its closest approach towards Earth next week.

NASA warns that an asteroid is passing by Earth on Jan. 18. Here’s how to watch using a telescope.

An asteroid with a diameter of 3,451 feet will fly past our Earth at the speed of thousands of miles an hour. The asteroid is called 7482 or 1994 PC1 since it was discovered in 1994 by Robert McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia.

Our Blue Planet faces dozens of major asteroid near misses every year, with some scientists promoting ambitious but costly asteroid impact avoidance... 11.01.2022, Sputnik International

Known as asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 the colossal space rock has an estimated length of about one kilometre.

On January 18, stony asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 will safely fly by Earth.