The asteroid, named 2015 RN35, will be traveling at speeds of 13,220 miles per hour as it flies past our planet.
that may measure up to 460 feet in diameter is set to soar near the Earth on Thursday.
Most asteroids range in diameter from around 30 feet to up to hundreds of miles. The largest asteroid in our solar system is Ceres, which has a diameter of 587.82 miles. According to estimates, 2015 RN35 is between 206 and 460 feet across, which makes it roughly the same size as a baseball field. Asteroids that veer toward the Earth's orbit may have been ejected as a result of impacts in the asteroid belt or influenced by gravitation interactions with other large celestial bodies, like Jupiter. Many of these are classified as near-Earth objects because of their proximity to our planet. There are 30,000 NEOs and counting. Of these, some are in another subset called"" objects, meaning they come within 4.
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