Asteroid alert: A NASA-tracked rock will come as close as the Moon tonight – Will it hit?

Will the Asteroid 2019 TX hit the planet tonight?

Thankfully, NASA does not expect the asteroid to swerve beyond its orbit enough to strike the planet.

At its closest, Asteroid TX will approach Earth from a distance of 0.00320 astronomical units.

One astronomical unit measures about 93 million miles (149.6 million km) or the distance from the Sun to Earth.

Asteroid TX will cut this down to just 297,458 miles (478,713km) tonight.