Giant asteroid three times as big as Statue of Liberty to ‘skim’ past Earth TOMORROW

A HUGE asteroid is heading towards Earth and should come close to our planet tomorrow.

Nasa has labelled Asteroid 2017 AE3 a “close approach” space rock and will be keeping an eye on it.

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The asteroid should shoot past Earth in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

It could be up to 853 feet wide.

That would make it almost three times as big as the Statue of Liberty.

The famous New York landmark stands at 305 feet high.

Asteroid 2017 AE3 is expected to come within 1.9million miles of our planet.

That may seem pretty far away but it’s not in terms of space.

Nasa considers anything passing within 120million miles of Earth a Near-Earth Object (NEO).

Thousands of NEOs are tracked by scientists to monitor whether they’re on a collision course with our planet.

Any fast-moving space object that comes within 4.65 million miles is considered to be “potentially hazardous” by cautious space organizations.

One small change to their trajectories could spell disaster for Earth.

Tomorrow’s large asteroid is expected to shoot past without any issues at around 47,000 miles per hour.

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This post first appeared on Thesun.co.uk