NASA asteroid tracker: Asteroid discovered YESTERDAY is headed for Earth approach tonight

Asteroid FW will cut this down considerably to just 1.92 million miles (3.09 million km).

In other words, the asteroid will shoot past the Earth about as eight times as far as the Moon is.

But this is not the first time NASA believes the space rock passed the Earth.

According to the JPL, the asteroid’s orbit shows it previously flew past us on February 10, 2017.

And after tonight’s approach, the rock will visit Earth’s corner of space again on January 15, 2021, and May 11, 2021.