Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Set To Fly By Earth.

An enormous asteroid (5905ft) two times the size of the Burj Khalifa (2722ft)Building will make a close approach to Earth on May 27, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).

The asteroid, named 7335 (1989 JA), Scientists estimate the asteroid traveling at about 47,200 mph ( 76,000 km / h ) , or 20 times faster than a speeding bullet, will soundly miss our planet by about 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) — or nearly 10 times the average distance between Earth and the moon. Still, given the space rock's enormous size (1.1. miles, or 1.8 km, in diameter).