Published on August 30, 2017
The largest asteroid ever tracked by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will pass by Earth just 11 days after the Great American Solar Eclipse.
Asteroid Florence, named after nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, will pass by Earth on Sept. 1 at a safe distance of 4.4 million miles, roughly 18 times the distance between the Earth and the moon.
Florence is 2.7 miles wide, making it the largest asteroid ever tracked by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
