The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from robotic telescopes in Italy, weather permitting.

This big asteroid was discovered less than a fortnight before its flyby Earth. But any time you see a headline about asteroids flying by the planet, you can relax. Big and small…

On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.