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Asteroid the size of Empire State Building to make 'close' encounter with Earth - New York Post
Oct 18, 2021 30 secs

The space rock “2004 UE,” which at 1,246 feet is only a few feet shorter than the Midtown skyscraper, will be 2.6 million miles away on Nov.

Of the asteroids headed our way, “1996 VB3” — which has a diameter of about 750 feet — is expected to come closest to Earth, at a distance of only 2.1 million miles, according to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Objects.

The distance is close compared to our nearest neighbor Venus, which is 70 million miles away.

The asteroid’s appearance will follow that of space rock 2021 SM3, which was reported to zoom past Earth on Friday from 3.5 million miles away. .

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