An asteroid estimated to be between 951 to 2’132 feet (290m to 650m) will fly by Earth next month. To put it into perspective, the world’s tallest building in Dubai, the Burj Khalifa is 2’717 feet tall while the 88-storey Petronas twin towers from Malaysia is of the height of 1’482 feet (451.9 meters).

NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies is currently tracking it and at this moment Asteroid 2000 QW7  does not pose any danger to life on earth. According to NASA, asteroids at the size of more than 460 feet (140 meters) and within 7.5million km of Earth will be consider as potentially hazardous. The distance from Earth to moon is around 384’km.

At the time of this writing, the asteroid is currently around 10’500’000 km from us, closing in at the rate of 5.6km per second or 20’063 km/h. At its closest, on Sept 14, it will fly us by at 5’333’626km or about 14 times the distance between Earth and Moon. It circle the sun in an orbit that occasionally crosses Earth’s. It first flew past Earth in the year 2000, and after this Sept it will come in for another close approach in 2038.

And yes, when it passes us by you will be able to see the asteroid with your naked eye! You can live track the asteroid from this website: http://spacein3d.com/asteroid/2000qw7