Asteroid the size of two football fields to pass Earth on Friday

An asteroid the size of two football fields will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday at 11 miles per second.

Although the 890-foot asteroid, “2008 OS7,” qualifies as possibly hazardous in space terms, officials assured there is no possibility of collision with the space rock, named after the year it was discovered, 2008.

“We don’t need to worry about it too much as this asteroid will not enter Earth’s atmosphere, while this will still approach close to the Earth,” said Minjae Kim, a research fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick.

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The day before 2008 OS7 makes its rounds, two asteroids the size of a small house and an airplane will pass Earth more than 1.5 million miles away, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Smoke pours from the bottom of the Magellan spacecraft mockup Friday morning, August 10, 1990, at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, during a program illustrating the actual firing of the Magellan rocket to enter Venus orbit. (AP Photo/Julie Markes)

Scientists will be monitoring the asteroid’s every move, as well as four additional space rocks expected to pass Earth as soon as this weekend.