It looks like Christmas Eve will be a bit busier than usual as a wayward asteroid joins Santa and his reindeers trekking across our Earth skies.

A giant space rock known as 2003 SD220, estimated to be 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) across, will be making its closest approach to Earth on December 24, zooming at 17 miles (27 km) per second. But, no worries: that “close approach” will miss us by 6.7 million miles (11 million kilometers)—about 28 times the distance separating the Earth and the moon.

To the chagrin of astronomers, some reckless media reports have implied the asteroid could cause earthquakes across the globe.

There is no scientific evidence whatsoever that any sized space rock swinging by our world could ever