Huge Asteroid Will Pass Closer To Earth Than The Moon In Coming Days !!

An asteroid a quarter-mile-wide will, astronomically speaking, narrowly miss Earth next week. And while it is the closest an asteroid this size has come to the home planet since 1976, there's no need to call Bruce Willis ... yet. "There is no chance that this object will collide with the Earth or moon," Don Yeomans, the manager of NASA's Near Earth Object Program office, told Reuters. But that doesn't mean the asteroid -- named 2005 YU55 -- won't be a threat to earth in the future. Lance Benner, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a video from NASA (available below) that scientists haven't been able to reliably compute the asteroid's path beyond a couple of hundred years from now. At its closest point, the space rock will be about 201,700 miles (324,600 kilometers) away, which is 0.85 the distance between the moon and the Earth. NASA says that the asteroid will reach this point at 6:28 p.m. EST on Tuesday.