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It won't hit Earth. It will fly-by the planet, like every other famous asteroid.

So, your answer is - it won't, it's just doing a fly-by.

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The Earth is hit by tens of thousands of meteoroids each day. Most of them are smaller than a grain of rice, but a few are larger. Softball-sized objects hit the Earth every few days or so, and car-sized objects hit us every couple of years. But bigger things have hit us before, and certainly will hit us again.

It was probably an enormous coincidence, but on the same day that asteroid 2012 DA14 passed by at a distance of about 17,000 miles (just a whisker in astronomical terms!) the Earth was struck by a couple of fairly substantial rocks.

One exploded high in the air over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in eastern Siberia. The meteor was captured by hundreds of video cameras, and the shock wave from the explosion shattered windows and caused over a thousand injuries from flying glass.

I'm also seeing reports of a similar object that exploded high in the air over eastern Cuba, but I haven't seen any pictures of that yet.

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