It will be closest to the earth when it is 1.37 million miles away
The asteroid will also be visible through an 20-centimetre telescope, according to the European Space Agency (ESA).
NASA defines any object that is larger than 150 metres and within 7,402,982 km of Earth as a “potentially hazardous object.”
Asteroid 2020 XR is expected to bypass Earth again in about four years, but it won’t pass this closely again until at least 2196, when it will be an estimated 18.2 million kilometres away.
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