How to watch an enormous asteroid whizz close by Earth tonight

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How to watch an enormous asteroid whizz close by Earth tonight

As you may or may not know, a large asteroid is going to scrape by Earth later tonight - but fear not.

While the heavenly body will be very close in astronomical terms, it has no chance to hit us - it's still going to be about three times the distance of the moon distant (1.2 million km).

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