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Is Santa safe? Huge 750-foot ‘Christmas Eve’ asteroid is soaring towards Earth

A HUGE Christmas Eve asteroid is heading our way.

Nasa says Asteroid 2016 TR54 is up to 755 foot wide, making it almost 10 times bigger than this year’s Rockefeller Christmas tree in New York.

Nasa will be keeping an eye on the giant space rock as it’s expected to make a “close approach”.

There’s no need for Santa to panic just yet though.

The asteroid should stay 4million miles away from our planet.

You may think that sounds very far away but it’s not in terms of space.

Any fast-moving space object that comes within 4.65 million miles is considered to be “potentially hazardous” by cautious space organizations.


Nasa regards anything passing within 120million miles of Earth a Near-Earth Object (NEO).

Thousands of NEOs are tracked by scientists to monitor whether they’re on a collision course with our planet.

One small change to their trajectories could spell disaster for Earth.

Asteroid 2016 TR54 should shoot past Earth at 35,000 miles per hour on Christmas Eve morning.

Astronomers track thousands of asteroids, comets and other objects that threaten our pale blue dot, and new ones are found every day.

Earth hasn’t seen an asteroid of apocalyptic scale since the space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs 66million years ago.

However, smaller objects capable of flattening an entire city crash into Earth every so often.

One a few hundred feet across devastated 800 square miles of forest near Tunguska in Siberia on June 30, 1908.

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