This Asteroid Poses No Risk — Again, No Risk — to Us Earthlings

the close approach is like 13+ LD (lunar distances) so basically safe for now --- note The term LD (Lunar Distance) refers to the average distance between the Earth and Moon. For data reported on this site (JPL NEO), we use a mean semimajor axis for the moon of 384400 km (~.002570 au) to define one LD. you can go here to see the close approach data for this object https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2016%20NF23;old=0;orb=0;cov=0;log=0;cad=1#cad The closest approaches are as follows, note that they never get closer than about 4 LD 384400 km = 1LD = ~.002570 au DATE| Distance in AU --------|--------| 2039-Sep-01 17:52 | 0.013835047675678 2102-Sep-03 05:54 | 0.01482904373706 2123-Sep-03 13:49 | 0.015703527053663 2186-Sep-03 02:18 | 0.017082430978133 2079-Aug-31 23:30 | 0.019225426760586 1997-Aug-30 16:57 | 0.022974894858871 2060-Sep-02 20:35 | 0.026399896838038 1976-Aug-29 15:46 | 0.027819586027124 1934-Aug-29 23:09 | 0.029336355636038 so gloom and doom is more fake news by fear profiteers