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Should you be worried that the gravitational pull that the Earth exerts on objects near it, will attract it toward our planet? NASA has it that the asteroid will actually miss Earth by a hair-breadth so to speak. Here are a few important details about this asteroid. This is a 10-foot asteroid and at its closest approach to Earth today, it will be just 93,500 miles away only.

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A Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission aimed @testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs) was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through transfer of momentum to hitting asteroid head-on. Selected target asteroid, Dimorphos, is a minor-planet moon of asteroid Didymos; neither asteroid poses an impact threat to Earth, but their joint characteristics made them an ideal bench marking target. Launched on 24 November 2021, DART spacecraft successfully collided with Dimorphos on 26 September 2022 at 23:14 UTC about 11 million kilometers (6.8 million miles; 0.074 astronomical units; 29 lunar distances) from Earth. Collision shortened Dimorphos' orbit by 32 minutes, greatly in excess of the pre-defined success threshold of 73 seconds. DART's success in deflecting Dimorphos was due to the momentum transfer associated with the recoil of the ejected debris, which was substantially larger than that caused by the impact itself.