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Asteroid 4660 Nereus: Unique piece of rock expected to come within 2.5 Million miles of Earth next week

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A giant piece of rock orbiting around the Sun known as Asteroid 4660 Nereus is heading towards the Earth. The gigantic asteroid is said to be skim past the Earth on December 11. The Asteroid 4660 Nereus was discovered in 1982 and NASA has been monitoring it since then. As per NASA, the enormous asteroid is roughly 330-meter wide elongated rock and it is expected to come within 2.5 Million Miles of Earth Next Week.