The greatest space rock to pass by Earth this year will approach inside some 1.25 million miles (2,000,000 kilometers) of our planet on March 21, NASA said Thursday.
The U.S. space office said it will allow stargazers to get an extraordinary close gander at a space rock.
The space rock, 2001 FO32, is evaluated to be around 3,000 feet (around 914 meters) in estimation and was discovered 20 years earlier, NASA said.
"We know the orbital method of 2001 FO32 around the Sun absolutely," said Paul Chodas, supervisor of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies. "Its absolutely impossible the space rock will attract any closer to Earth than 1.25 million miles."
That is for the most part 5.25 events the distance of the Earth from the Moon yet close enough for 2001 FO32 to be assigned a "perhaps hazardous space rock."
NASA said 2001 FO32 will pass by at around 77,000 miles (124,000 kilometers) every hour speedier than the speed at which most space rocks experience Earth.
"At the present time, little is contemplated this article, so the close by experience gives an uncommon opportunity to get comfortable with a remarkable plan about this space rock," said Lance Benner, head specialist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA said cosmologists want to improve understanding of the space rock's size and an unforgiving thought about its piece by concentrating light reflecting off its surface.
"Exactly when sunlight hits a space rock's surface, minerals in the stone hold a couple of frequencies while reflecting others," NASA said. "By analyzing the scope of light reflecting off the surface, space specialists can evaluate the substance 'fingerprints' of the minerals outwardly of the space rock."
Novice space specialists in specific bits of the globe should have the choice to lead their own discernments.
"The space rock will be generally splendid while it goes through southern skies," Chodas said.
"Fledgling cosmologists in the southern portion of the globe and at low northern extensions should have the alternative to see this space rock using moderate size telescopes with openings of in any occasion eight slithers in the nights making ready to closest approach, yet they will probably require star diagrams to find it."
NASA said in abundance of 95% of close Earth space shakes the size of 2001 FO32 or greater have been stocked and none of them gets any chance of influencing our planet throughout the next century.