NASA is monitoring an asteroid —"2025 XM"—that is expected to pass within 295,000 miles of Earth today, December 9, according to data from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

The visiting space rock is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.

With an estimated diameter of 84 feet—roughly the size of a commercial airplane—2025 XM falls well below the size threshold NASA uses to define a potentially hazardous object.

Objects that pass within 4.6 million miles of Earth and measure more than 150 meters in diameter are classified by NASA as "potentially hazardous."

For comparison, the average distance from Earth to the moon is about 239,000 miles (385,000 kilometers), meaning 2025 XM’s approach will take it to just over 1.2 times the lunar distan

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