(KMOX) - NASA is keeping close tabs on a number of large rocks flying through space and headed near earth throughout the next week. Although you won't be able to see them with the naked eye, they range in size from 60- to nearly 1,800-feet wide and can travel as fast as 63,000 miles per hour.
The tracking information is published by NASA on the "NEO Earth Close Approaches" list. It tracks all comets and asteroids with paths around the sun that take it within 121 million miles of the star and 30 million miles of earth's orbit.
This week, seven Near Earth Objects (NEO's) will fly by our planet at an estimated distance between 3.23 and 18.25 Lunar Distance, which translates to more than 77,000 and 4.3 million miles.