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NASA Tracking Airplane-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth

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Asteroid " 2021 FH1" is estimated to be about 98 feet across and will come within 925,000 miles of the Earth on March 21 .

This flyby is part of a series of five near- Earth approaches currently being closely monitored by NASA 's Asteroid Watch Dashboard .

Asteroids are rocky remnants left over from the early formation of the solar system, about 4.6 billion years ago .

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