The close encounter will be at 6:28 p.m. EST on November 8th and will be visible from the northern hemisphere, it will not be visible to the unaided eye.

But fear not the object has no chance of striking the earth or the moon.  According to Lance Benner a research scientist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “2005 YU55 cannot hit Earth,”, “at least over the interval we can compute the motion reliably, which extends for several hundred years.”.

Asteroid 2005 YU55 is a C-type asteroid, a common type of asteroid. It probable is mostly made of carbon-based materials. This asteroid last visited the earth 18 months ago. This asteroid has “no chance” of hitting the Earth or the moon in the next 500 years.