A quartet of particularly hefty asteroids ... making it the largest of the four, will reach a minimum distance of 2.8 million ...

As explained by the Virtual Telescope Project, the asteroid is one of the five largest asteroids to approach the Earth at a distance closer than 15 million kilometers (9.3 million miles ...

The first and largest is Asteroid 2011 UL21 ... Thankfully, it will pass Earth by at a safe distance of over 4 million miles away. Like planets, asteroids orbit the sun, but they are much smaller.

Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space. A pair of asteroids are set to make close passes by the Earth this week, and both are unusually large for visitors to the ...

It takes 1 Ceres 4.6 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun. What are the other biggest asteroids in the solar system? The next largest asteroids in the solar system are 2 Pallas ...