Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1

[Gerald]

Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on Sept. 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles, (7.0 million kilometers, or about 18 Earth-Moon distances). Florence is among the largest near-Earth asteroids that are several miles is size; measurements from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and NEOWISE mission indicate it’s about 2.7 miles (4.4 kilometers) in size.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/lar...arth-on-sept-1

Close call.

Note: Aug. 18, 2017