An asteroid the size of two football fields will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday at 11 miles per second.
Although the 890-foot asteroid, “2008 OS7,” qualifies as possibly hazardous in space terms, officials assured there is no possibility of collision with the space rock, named after the year it was discovered, 2008.
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