Huge asteroid to pass between Earth and Moon on Wednesday morning at CET 12.28 AM

A huge asteroid named 2005 YU55, bigger than an aircraft carrier will dart between the Earth and moon on Tuesday at 3:28 p.m. Pacific time, which is on Wednesday at 12.28 CET AM European time – the closest encounter of the Earth by such a huge space rock in 35 years.

Scientists who have been tracking the asteroid say it will pass within only 202,000 miles of Earth. That’s closer than the roughly 240,000 miles between the Earth and the moon. The moon will be less than 150,000 miles from the asteroid at the time of closest approach.

If 2005 YU55 were to plow into our home planet Earth, it would blast out a crater four miles across and 1,700 feet deep, according to scientific calculations. It would also cause a magnitude-7 earthquake, 70-foot-high tsunami waves, and major climatic changes.

Scientists, all over the world, who have been tracking the slowly spinning, spherical, dark-colored object since its discovery in 2005, and are positive it won’t do any damage.

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