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Asteroid news: NASA has released a fascinating false colour photo of Asteroid Eros (Image: NASA) READ MORE The NASA asteroid tracking site has revealed at its largest, 2021 CS6 is approximately only 55ft (17m) across – the size of a house. As a result, the rogue space rock would simply incinerate in our world’s thick atmosphere, even if it were on a collision course with us. In comparison, the following week will see dozens of much larger asteroids on 'close approach' - ranging from asteroid 2021 BS3 which is up to 100 metres in size to 2021 CW* which is 23m to 51m and will fly past Earth...

Story highlights Comparable in size to the Golden Gate Bridge, asteroid 231937 or 2001 FO32, will pass within 2,016,351 km of Earth in 2021 The largest asteroid to fly past the Earth in 2021 is set to make a close approach to the planet on March 21. Comparable in size to the Golden Gate Bridge, asteroid 231937 or 2001 FO32, will pass within 2,016,351 km of Earth in 2021. Based on its brightness and the way it reflects light, 2001 FO32 is approximately between 0.767 to 1.714 kilometres in diameter. At Congress's direction, NASA has supported a ground-based program to identify the NEOs lar...

However, it is nowhere near the speed of light, which 299,792,458 metres per second. This means 2001 FO32 is travelling is travelling at just 1.1 percent the speed of light. According to NASA, the asteroid will pass Earth at a safe 5.3 lunar distances (LDs). Asteroid news: Largest asteroid to fly by this year travelling 100 times faster than sound (Image: GETTY) A plane breaking the sound barrier (Image: GETTY) One LD is 384,317 kilometres - the distance between the Earth and the Moon - so 2001 FO32 will fly by at more than two million kilometres from our planet. However, NASA has revealed th...

According to NASA, the asteroid will pass Earth at a safe 5.3 lunar distances (LDs). One LD is 384,317 kilometres - the distance between the Earth and the Moon - so 2001 FO32 will fly by at more than two million kilometres from our planet. However, NASA has revealed the asteroid has been classed as "potentially hazardous". Asteroid bigger than a kilometre and 'potentially hazardous' set to pass Earth, says NASA (Image: GETTY) The path of 231937 (2001 FO32) (Image: NASA) The term 'potentially hazardous' does not mean that an asteroid poses an imminent threat to Earth. Rather, it refers to the ...

AN ASTEROID longer than two football pitches - which NASA has described as being 'potentially hazardous' - will swing past our plant tomorrow in what is known as a close Earth approach.