PARIS: After a comet for Halloween, another Earthly holiday will be marked by a visit from a celestial body — this time a large asteroid zipping past on Christmas Eve, astronomers said.

The massive space rock, about two kilometers in length, will cruise by our planet about 28 times farther than the distance between Earth and the Moon, Mark Bailey, director of the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland, said.

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