The near-Earth asteroid 2005 YY128 will zoom within 2.8 million miles (4.5 million km) of our planet at 7:46 p.m. EST on Wednesday (0046 GMT on Feb. 16) — closer than it's gotten to us in more than 400 years, according to EarthSky.org(opens in new tab).
Still, that's about 12 times the distance from Earth to the moon, so there's no chance the asteroid will hit us on this pass, experts stress.
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