A massive asteroid bigger than the Great Pyramid in Egypt is slated to fly past the Earth on March 25, 2022, but will safely bypass our planet without the risk of impact.

According to NASA‘s Asteroid Watch, 2013 BO76, an asteroid with a diameter of 270.73 metres (888 feet), will fly past Earth at a distance of less than 0.05 AU (7 million kilometres), and will reportedly come as close as 3 million kilometres to the Earth.

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The asteroid was first detected by the PanSTARRs survey in January 2013, which led to it being named 2013 BO76

Recently, the asteroid was detected again on March 7, 2022 by the Virtual Telescope project, when it was some 15 million kilometres from the Earth.

Astronomy aficionados with very powerful telescopes may be able to see the massive asteroid pass Earth, but there are much larger candidates to keep an eye out on.

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Among some 2,200 potentially hazardous objects on NASA’s watch list, a huge four-mile one named (53319) 1999 JM8 capable of causing massive destruction on Earth is slated to come as close to our planet as Venus.

However, the asteroid that will reportedly make the closest approach to Earth in the coming centuries is 101955 Bennu, a 460-foot rock that will fly so close to the Earth on September 24, 2182 that it will have a 1/2700 chance of hitting our planet and causing widespread destruction, odds that are not astronomical.

Over the last 600 million years, asteroids bigger than 5 kilometres have struck the Earth 60 times as per available data, making large impact events a likelihood every 10 million years.