Asteroid 2020 QL2 has an estimated size of be… An asteroid that is reportedly half the size of Mount Everest will fly by Earth next week. Read on to find out about the killer asteroid which could potentially hit Earth. Scientists estimate that there is a 1 in 40 that this large asteroid will impact earth. Asteroid 2020 QL2 is set to pass Earth on September 14 (Credits: Getty Images) Next week Earth is set to have yet another close encounter with a ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid. The biggest asteroid to pass Earth in the next year will make its close approach on March 21, 2021. The asteroid is set to hit the planet's atmosphere next week, September 6. Hayabusa2 is about to swing past Earth next week, dropping of samples of asteroid Ryugu over Australia. It is up to one mile wide and will pass by at a distance of around 1.2 million miles. Akash Singh. Apophis is about the size of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. A HUGE asteroid is set to make a close approach to Earth next week. According to Nasa, the huge space rock will be travelling at 24,000 miles per hour. This isn’t the first time our planet has faced a near miss from an asteroid in recent years. Read | China all set to launch an asteroid mining robot in November. The huge asteroid is set to cross the Earth's atmosphere next week Credit: Getty Images - Getty It has been called a Near-Earth Object by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) meaning it is 1.3 astronomical unit (AU) from the Sun. The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico captured a radar image of asteroid 1998 OR2 that will pass within 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometres) of Earth on April 29. Killer Asteroid hitting Earth in 2022. This particular asteroid was discovered by NASA in 1998. Wednesday, 25 March 2020, 08:51 am EDT. Has an asteroid hit Earth before? On April 29, an asteroid estimated to be 1.2 miles wide will fly by Earth, but it's not on a destructive path. Lindley Johnson, NASA’s planetary defence officer said in a statement on its official website, “The first step to stopping a killer asteroid is finding it. And new images of the asteroid make it appear as though it's wearing a face mask. (Photo: Pixabay) An Asteroid Twice the Size of the Great Pyramid of Giza is Set to Hit Earth's Atmosphere Next Week If it does hit earth, we can … Asteroid 99942 Apophis could hit earth in 2029, but its more likely that a near miss will happen. Asteroid To Hit Earth Next Week Has NASA Confirm The News To Be True. In August, Asteroid 2020 QL2 flear less than 2,000 miles from Earth.