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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid will pass Earth this week

Asteroids fly past our planet all the time, but according to CNET, there's a special one coming up at the end of this week.

Asteroid 1998 HL1 has been classified as 'potentially hazardous' by NASA due to its 'potential to make threatening close approaches to the Earth'.

So even though the space rock's trajectory means it will be close to four million miles away when it passes, should you still be worried?

Find out more in the video above.