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Empire State Building-size asteroid ‘expected’ to miss Earth

A “potentially hazardous” asteroid the size of the Empire State Building will come within striking distance of the Earth on Aug. 10 — but 🌌is expected to zoom by without incident, according to NASA.

The space rock — designated as a ne⛎ar-Earth object, because its orbit takes it within 30 million miles of our planet — is expected to come within about 4.55 million miles of us as it whizzes by at 10,4🏅00 mph.

Anything that gets closer than 0.05 “astronomical unit🀅s” — roughly 4.65 million miles — is considered “potential🥀ly hazardous.”

The asteroid, dubbed 2006 QQ23, is 1,870 feet in diameter — some 36 stories lar🔴ger than the 1,454-foot-tall Empire State Building.

It hasn’t gotten this close to our terrestrial home since 2001, when it came within 3.13 million miles, acco⛦rding to data from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies.

The next near-Earth appearanceᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ of 2006 QQ23 is expected on Feb. 15, 2022, but it won’t come nearly as clꦅose, data shows.