The asteroid "will fly over Earth closer to the moon tomorrow," warn scientists

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The Earth will be completely safe: the asteroid will fly at a distance of 0.57 km from the Moon, or 136,000 miles.

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It will fly at a speed of 3.5 miles per second, at 07:39 UK time.

Asteroids of this size are far from the size of the rock that has wiped out dinosaurs, but they can still cause damage.

At the Chelyabinsk event in 2013, 1,500 people were injured and 7,300 buildings damaged by the intense overpressure caused by the shock wave on the Earth's surface.

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