Huge asteroid three times the size of a London bus will zip between Earth and the moon TOMORROW - Daily Mail

A huge asteroid three times the size of a London bus will zip between Earth and the moon tomorrow at a distance of just 159,000 miles, NASA has revealed.

Dubbed 2021 GT3, the 108ft long space rock will fly by the Earth on April 10, making its closest approach to the planet at about 22:30 BST.

The space rock, which will zip between the Earth and the Moon at 54,000 miles per hour, will be too faint to see with anything but the largest professional telescopes. .

Dubbed 2021 GT3, the 108ft long space rock will fly by the Earth on April 10, making its closest approach to the planet at about 22:30 BST.

Dubbed 2021 GT3, the 108ft long space rock will fly by the Earth on April 10, making its closest approach to the planet at about 22:30 BST.

It will be 159,000 miles from the Earth at its closest approach - for comparison the Earth is roughly 238,900 miles from the moon.

GT3 is classified as a Near Earth Object (NEO), posing a potential risk to Earth, but any object coming within 1.3 times the distance from Earth to the Sun is also an NEO.

It is the second similar sized rock to make a close approach, with 2021 GT coming 688,000 miles of the Earth at 20:11 BST this evening, passing three times further from the Earth than the moon, according to NASA. 

GB4, a mammoth 236ft asteroid will pass three million miles from the Earth at about 01:00 BST, followed by GT3 at 22:30, then GT1, a 131ft long space rock will pass 2.8 million miles from the Earth at about 23:16 BST

GT3 is classified as a Near Earth Object (NEO), posing a potential risk to Earth, but any object coming within 1.3 times the distance from Earth to the Sun is also an NEO