It's a Christmas miracle – albeit potentially hazardous and slightly late. A huge asteroid is set to safely pass by Earth in the early hours of December 26, just as Santa starts clocking in for his holidays. The space rock – labeled 310442 (2000 CH59) – is expected to make its closest approach to Earth at around 07:54 UTC, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). 310442 (2000 CH59) is estimated to be up to 620 meters (2,034 feet) in diameter – taller than the One World Trade Center in New York City. Despite some newspapers claiming it's a "killer Christmas space rock", don't expect the asteroid to ruin your holidays. Zooming passed at over 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) per second, the asteroid is expected to be 7,180,697 kilometers (0.048 astronomical units) away from Earth at its closest approach, around 19 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. This might sound like a hell of a long-distance in human terms, but it's close enough to be called a