from The Daily Star

Bus-sized Asteroid heading for Earth TODAY after string of near-miss encounters

AN ASTEROID will hurtle towards Earth today – just one week after another dangerously close encounter.

By Charlotte Ikonen

AsteroidGETTY / IMPACT: If the asteroid hit the Earth it would have a devastating impact

The newly-discovered space rock – named Asteroid 2017 TD6 – is expected to zoom past our planet at around at around 7.53pm.

It will be travelling at a distance of 191,000km away from civilisation.

According to NASA the chunk of rock is a whopping 22m wide.

Last week another asteroid made a close shave with Earth, as it soared past at a distance of just 27,000 miles above the surface.

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