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The asteroid was moving so fast that there was not enough time to attempt deflection and the European Space Agency (ESA) said that worryingly, the chance of impact appeared to increase.
A massive asteroid with a size comparable with the Empire State Building is set to fly by Earth. A massive asteroid is heading towards Earth but is projected to safely fly by later this week.
NASA's asteroid detector called ATLAS scans the sky for any potentially dangerous objects, and it has recently been upgraded.
The 2001 CB21 asteroid’s diameter is 1.3 kilometers (0.81 miles) approximately four times as the Eiffel Tower.
The asteroid, classed as "potentially hazardous" by NASA, poses no danger to Earth but is going to pass unusually close to our planet next month.