NASA Finds New Empire State Building-sized Asteroid

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has warned that another potentially hazardous asteroid is hurtling towards the Earth

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Bigger than the Empire state building, the space rock dubbed 2013 BO76 has a diameter of 450 metres

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In addition to this, the massive asteroid would travel at a speed of 49,513 kilometers per hour although it poses no threat to the Earth considering the distance in between.

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The JPL even released a map showing the orbit of the asteroid which overlaps that of the Earth and even Mars.

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In the picture, the asteroid's orbit can be spotted in the colour white whereas the orbit of Earth and Mars are represented in blue and red colours respectively.

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The asteroid 2013 BO76 came closest to our planet in 2013 and was about 78,88,295 kilometers from Earth.

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