Airplane-size asteroid to fly close to Earth - Orbit animation

Asteroid 2011 ES4 will fly "about 45,000 miles (792,000 football fields) away" from Earth on
Sept. 1, 2020, according to NASA. It poses no threat to our planet.

Credit: Space.com / orbit animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech / produced & edited by Steve Spaleta (http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta)