Florence is 4.4 km in size and will be the largest Asteroid to pass this close to earth.
Fasten your seatbelts and hold on tight as one of the largest asteroids hovering in the neighbourhood will go past earth on September 1.
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It will be visible to small telescopes for several nights in late August and early September.
There have many cases of asteroids passing close to earth but are estimated to be small in size as compared to Florence.
As per the TOI report, NASA said that Florence will be an excellent target to ground based radar observations.
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