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Largest asteroid of 2021 to make closest approach to Earth – Al Jazeera English
Scientist advise people not to panic as the giant rock makes its closest approach on Sunday.
The largest asteroid to sweep past Earth this year will make its closest approach on Sunday.
But scientists have told people not to panic as it poses no threat to the planet.
The giant space rock that researchers call 2001 FO32 has a diameter of several hundred metres and will approach Earth at a distance of about two million kilometres (1.2 million miles), US space agency NASA said.
That distance is more than five times as far as the Earth to the moon.
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