This week, five asteroids, one of which is as large as a house, will pass close to Earth.

This week, five asteroids, one of which is as large as a house, will pass close to Earth.

According to NASA’s Asteroid Watch Dashboard, a house-sized asteroid is expected to pass Earth on Wednesday and four other space rocks will follow in the coming days.

The massive creature with a height of nearly 60 feet and the name JA5 was found in 2021 and is predicted to miss Earth by 3.17 million miles.

Asteroids and comets larger than 500 feet that are anticipated to approach Earth within 4.7 million miles are referred to as “potentially hazardous objects” (PHO) by NASA.

NASA refers to the sizes of the other four asteroids as “airplanes” or “buses,” and their range is between 26 and 170 feet.

Both the smaller, 26-foot 2020 GE and the 83-foot airplane-sized QC5 will fly by Earth on Friday from a distance of approximately 2.53 million miles.

The largest and closest of them all, QE8, is expected to arrive less than a million miles from Earth on Sunday.

QF6, a 68-footer that is expected to be 1.65 million miles away on the same day, and that massive 170-foot asteroid are both on track to fly 946,000 miles away from Earth.

This year saw the discovery of both asteroids.

NASA was contacted by The Post for comment.

As of last week, the organization claimed to have discovered more than 32,000 asteroids close to Earth.

According to NASA, the distance between Earth and the moon is approximately 239,000 miles on average.

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