Humanity can rejoice knowing they will not go the way of the dinosaurs Tuesday.
A gigantic asteroid, identified as 7482 (1994 PC1), will pass 1.2 million miles away from Earth, making it close enough for some viewers with a telescope to catch a glimpse. The estimated size of the space rock is around 5,400 feet in diameter, which NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory described as a “bridge-sized” asteroid.
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