Asteroid 2017 VR 12, which is about the size of the Empire State Building, will flash its pearly whites between late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning and will come within an estimated 900,000 miles of Earth. Because it will come so close to Earth and is big enough to cause significant damage, if it were to strike, the Minor Planet Center designated the asteroid as “potentially hazardous.”

However, fear not, it will not crash into Earth, rather it will pass by at about three times the distance of the moon. VR12 is one of 1,882 asteroids that NASA describes as 'potentially hazardous’ as it makes its approach to the planet at speeds of 6.3 kilometers per second, or 22,680 kmh within 3.8 Lunar Distances of our planet, where one LD is the average distance between Earth and the Moon. More: Asteroid to zoom 'damn close' to Earth on Thursday, will also test planetary defense system

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If you want to view the asteroid but don't have a telescope, the Virtual Telescope Project is offering a livestreamed video of the object as it passes.
Near-Earth asteroid 2017 VR12 makes a flyby past Earth.