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| NASA Announces Two Asteroids Will Pass Near Earth, One for Christmas and One the Day After
NASA announced that two asteroids will be passing by Earth for the holidays, one on Christmas day, and one the day after. Thankfully, the chances of either asteroid colliding with the planet are extremely low. The first asteroid, named 2019 YB1, will pass by earth on Christmas Day at around 11:41 GMT, Mirror reported. The space object is estimated to have a diameter of between 13 and 28 meters or around three times bigger than a London bus. At its nearest point, the asteroid will be 993,000 miles from Earth. However, NASA still considers it a "close approach." The space rock will be traveling at a blazingly fast speed of 12,303 during its flyby but it won't be visible to the naked eye. Meanwhile, the second asteroid is more massive than the first. It has an estimated diameter of between 919 and 2,034 feet (280 to 620 meters), according to FoxNews. To put it into perspective its diameter will be around the height of New York City's One World Trade Center. The massive space object,