NASA asteroid tracker: 280FT asteroid is hurtling for Earth approach at 30,000MPH

On Tuesday, asteroid MD8 will cut this down to just 3.6 million miles (5.8 million km).

This is approximately 15.09-times the distance between the Earth and the Moon – a unit of measurement known as Lunar Distances (LD).

But this is not the first and last time the giant space rock will skim the Earth.

Based on NASA’s orbital calculations, the space rock first visited Earth on February 5, 1902.

The asteroid will next make a close approach on January 28, 2022.