A small asteroid will whiz past Earth Friday, coming extremely close to the moon, NASA scientists say.
The Asteroid 2012 BX34, which is roughly the size of a bus, will pass within 36,750 miles of Earth on Friday, according to astronomers with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
It is about 36 feet wide, making it much too small to pose a threat to Earth.
"It wouldn't get through our atmosphere intact even if it dared to try," Asteroid Watch scientists tweeted Thursday. Asteroid Watch is based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
NASA scientists and other astronomer teams regularly monitor the skies in search of asteroids that could pose a danger to Earth. Experts estimate that asteroids measuring about 460 feet across can cause widespread destruction near their impact sites, but they'd need to be even larger to cause devastation on a global scale.