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Asteroid 2025 FA22 Safely Speeds Past Earth at More Than Twice Moon's Distance
- Asteroid 2025 FA22 will make its closest approach to Earth on September 18, 2025, passing at about 842,000 kilometers distance.
- This asteroid was identified in the first part of this year through observations conducted by the Pan-STARRS 2 telescope located in Hawaii, and subsequent precise tracking has confirmed that it poses no threat of collision.
- FA22 measures between 120 and 280 meters across, making it the largest near-Earth visitor this week and nearly twice to four times taller than Delhi's Qutub Minar.
- NASA and ESA indicate that asteroid 2025 FA22 travels in an orbit that is somewhat stretched and slightly inclined, completing a full orbit around the Sun roughly every 1.85 years, with a 0.01% probability of colliding with Earth during a close approach in 2089.
- Scientists continue to monitor FA22 closely as its flyby aids preparedness for potential future threats and highlights expanding asteroid research efforts, including those led by ISRO.
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The asteroid is between 130 and 290 meters tall, a collision could cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Fortunately, »2025 FA22« will probably fly past Earth on Thursday. What if it happens differently?
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The armageddon? An asteroid nearly 300 meters long, a thousand times larger than the meteorite fallen in the Russian city of Cheliábinsk in 2013, will pass tomorrow Thursday 18 September near the Earth, reported today the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “One of the largest asteroids this year, 2025 FA22, will pass tomorrow at a distance from the Earth slightly greater than the diameter of the lunar orbit, and will …
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