Scientists advise people not to panic as the giant rock, which poses no threat to the planet, is approaching Sunday.
The largest asteroid that swept the Earth this year will make its approach closer to Sunday.
But scientists have told people not to be scared, as it poses no threat to the planet.
The giant space rock that researchers call 2001 FO32 has a diameter of several hundred meters and will approach the Earth at a distance of about two million kilometers (1.2 million miles), the space agency said American NASA.
This distance is more than five times greater than the Earth to the Moon.
“It’s stable, it’s not on a risky course,” Detlef Koschny, an asteroid expert at the European Space Agency, told dpa news agency, adding that the celestial object will be available for viewing by amateur astronomers with the right equipment.
“We know the orbital trajectory of the 2001 FO32 around the sun very accurately, as it was discovered 20 years ago and has been followed ever since,” said Paul Chodas, director of the Center for Object Studies. the Near Earth, which is managed by NASA Jet. Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
This particular asteroid, which orbits the Sun once every 810 days, will fly over the Earth at a speed of about 124,000 km / h (77,000 mph).
After its harmless visit on Sunday, the 2001 FO32 will continue its lone journey, not approaching Earth again until 2052, NASA said.
Scientists plan to use the flyby to study the asteroid more closely.
“We don’t know much about it,” Koschny said, adding that getting to know FO32 in 2001 closely will help astronomers working on asteroid deflection projects.