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When Santa Claus breaks out his sleigh on Christmas Eve night, he will need to make sure he doesn’t stray to far up into the Earth’s atmosphere. If he does, his reindeer might become spooked by the gigantic asteroid that will be whizzing by the Earth that night, at speeds in excess of 14,000 miles (23,000 kilometers) per hour.
According to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), this asteroid, which has been named 2024 NX1, will pass by the Earth at a distance of just 4,480,000 million miles, or 7.21 million kilometers. While this may sound like a lot, in astronomical terms this is the very definition of a close call, given the vast distances that normally separate everything in space.
If It Did Hit the Earth, the Destruction Would Be Unimaginable
The Christmas Eve asteroid is quite large as space rocks go, measuring somewhere between 95 and 230 feet (29 and 70 meters) in diameter. Thankfully, NASA says there is no chance this large space object will actually slam into our planet, even if it diverges somewhat from its expected path. Nor is there a risk of it hitting the Moon and knocking it out of its orbit like a billiard ball.
“It will be very far away, around 18 times further away from the Earth than the Moon is, and so with this predicted path won’t come close enough to hit the Earth,” Jess Lee, an astronomer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, confirmed in an interview with the Daily Mail Online.