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A massiveasteroidis expected to whizby Earth in a relatively close encounter – 4.5 million miles –on Tuesday,according to NASA’sJet Propulsion Laboratory.

The asteroid, known as 2021 KT1, is about 600 feet, the size of the New York Olympic Tower or theSeattle Space Needle.

NASA classified the asteroid as a “potentially hazardous object” because it islarger than 492 feetand within 4.6 million miles of Earth. It will fly near Earth at 40,000 mph, according to thelaboratory,which tracks objects that drift close to Earth’s orbital area. Though the asteroid is not expected to make a direct hit, NASA is keeping a close watch.

This asteroid is not the only one to comeclose to the Earth.An asteroidknown as 2021 GW4was12,000 miles away from the Earth’s surface, traveling 18,700 mph in April. Astronomer Gianluca Masi, founder of the Virtual Telescope project…

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By Bloomberg News  May 31, 2021, 1:51pm MDT

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China will allow all couples to have a third child in a bid to arrest the shrinking birthrate and aging population that are risks to the country’s long-term economic prospects.