Giant 160-foot asteroid hurtling towards Earth TODAY, NASA warns - HT Tech

The space monster is speeding at a massive speed of 16.64 kilometres per second and it will make its closest approach to Earth of just 4.31 million miles today.

That's why even a small 41-foot wide asteroid dubbed 2022 SP, which will also come too close for comfort to Earth today, has also been flagged as a "potentially dangerous object." The danger from this small asteroid is the distance that it will come uncomfortably near to the Earth.

According to NASA's JPL, the asteroid will pass near the Earth at a distance of 2.2 million miles.

NASA's JPL says that any asteroid that approaches within 4.6 million miles of Earth or has a size larger than about 150 meters is flagged as a potentially hazardous object.