Enormous 2,000-foot-wide asteroid to speed past Earth at 18,000 miles per hour in November

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Enormous 2,000-foot-wide asteroid to speed past Earth at 18,000 miles per hour in November
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The space rock will come within around 2.7 million miles of our planet.

The asteroid is thought to measure between 919 and 2,034 feet in diameter. This potentially makes it larger than the Sears Tower in Chicago, which stands at a height of 1,729 feet.

The space rock was first discovered on September 17, 2006 by the Catalina Sky Survey—an astronomical project designed to look for asteroids and comets, which is conducted by scientists at the Steward Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. Any comet or asteroid whose orbit takes it within 121 million miles of the star and 30 million miles of our planet's orbit—like 481394 —is described as a near-Earth object

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