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Asteroid 2014 TN17 will skim past Earth at 11:34 GMT on Wednesday .
It'll be travelling at a speed of just over 48,000 miles per hour - 60 times the speed of sound.
The asteroid is estimated to be 540 feet in diameter, greater than the height of the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt .
NASA lists it as one of the upcoming close approaches on its online tracker, which compiles upcoming objects that are getting closer and closer.
'Rubble pile' asteroids such as Itokawa around 1.2 million miles away are made up of loose boulders and rocks that have clumped together under the influence of gravity.
Such an asteroid would act as a 'space cushion' in that it would absorb any impact energy and carry on its trajectory.
Scientists in California have been firing projectiles at meteorites to simulate the best methods of altering the course of an asteroid so it wouldn't hit Earth .
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