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NextImg:Two giant asteroids are set to roar past Earth tomorrow — and one is as big as an airplane

Is our world about to get rocked?

NASA is warning that a bus-sized asteroid is expected to pass by Earth tomorrow evening — and won’t come that close again for over 100 years.

Dubbed 2025 QV5, the space rock will reportedly come within 500,000 miles of our planet — approximately twice as far away from us as the moon, Livescience reported.

The asteroid, which measures 35 feet across or around the length of a small bus, will reportedly be traveling at more than 13,900 mph, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Asteroid Watch.

2025 QV5’s orbit around the sun takes it close to Earth and Venus. NASA/JPL

Thankfully, we don’t need to brace for deep impact now or in the future.

2025 QV5 orbits the sun every 359.4 days, during which it drifts between the orbits of Earth and Venus as it’s pulled between the two planets like a celestial custody battle.

Due to this unusual trajectory, it’s unlikely that the intergalactic gravel stone would ever hit home, and even if it did, armageddon wouldn’t likely ensue.

Despite its hair-raising future proximity, 2025 QV5 is too small to be labeled “potentially hazardous” defined by NASA as Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) — those that pass within 30 million miles of Earth — that measure larger than 460 feet in diameter.

An asteroid approaching Earth.
Thankfully the rock (not pictured) is too small to pose any threat. muratart – stock.adobe.com

As a result, the lion’s share of the projectile would likely burn up in the atmosphere.

Nonetheless, scientists are eager to learn as much as they can about this NEO, which is slated to make several more return visits over the next century, including in 2026 and 2027.

However, QV5 won’t fly this close again until September 4, 2125 — around a hundred years to the date — when it will attain a distance of approximately 830,000 miles from Earth.

The space rock isn’t the only interstellar stone making a beeline for our home base.

NASA is also keeping tabs on an asteroid known as 2025 QD8 that’s forecast to come within just 136,000 miles of Earth — roughly 57% the Earth-moon distance — at 10:57 a.m. EST on September 3, Space.com reported.

The asteroid measures approximately 71 feet in diameter — around the size of an airplane — and will be traveling at around 28,600 miles per hour, according to the space agency’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).

Despite its size and speed, the rock won’t pose a threat to our planet when making its pass.

Stargazers can catch its 2025 QD8’s live fly-by up close on a Youtube channel hosted by The Virtual Telescope Project.

Coverage begins at 7 p.m. tonight and will feature live views of the asteroid as it makes it approach.