Scary 54-foot asteroid rushing towards Earth today at a blistering 19772 kmph

The asteroid has been dubbed as Asteroid 2022 YG by NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).

NASA has revealed that Asteroid 2022 YG will make its closest approach to Earth today, December 22. 

It has been declared as a potentially hazardous object due to its extremely close distance of approach with Earth. 

According to NASA, this 54-foot space rock is nearly as big as an aircraft and will pass the planet at a distance of just 2.4 million kilometers! 

The asteroid is already on its way towards Earth travelling at a staggering 19772 kilometers per hour. 

NASA uses its space telescopes and observatories like the NEOWISE, Catalina Sky Survey and more to observe and study such potentially hazardous asteroids. 

As of now, nearly 28,000 near-Earth asteroids have been discovered using various survey telescopes which track objects in the sky.