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Earthlings often get nervous (or get their hopes up) about asteroids careening towards Earth. Such is the case this week, as headlines trumpet the danger of a “potentially hazardous” asteroid the size of the Space Needle along with four other space rocks. Fortunately for the worry-warts and unfortunately for nihilists around the world, the latest crop of Near Earth Objects are not the threats to ending life as we know it the headlines make them out to be. Advertisement The next five asteroid appearances noted on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory website include rocks ranging from the size of a small house to that of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral. But their approaches are “near” on an entirely different scale than the one you might be familiar with. The biggest asteroid, known as 2021 KT1, is expected to pass within 4.6 million miles (7.4 million kilometers) of Earth, posing no risk whatsoever. For comparison, theMoon is about 239,000 miles (384,633 kilometers) away.

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