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The fastest asteroid to pass within 1 LD of Earth in 2025 was 2025 BP 4 that passed Earth with a velocity with respect to Earth of 22.08 km/s (49,400 mph), [4] while the slowest bypass within lunar distance was that of 2025 DS 1 at a velocity with respect to Earth of 3.94 km/s (8,800 mph). [5]
February 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM. A large asteroid is headed towards Earth – and could collide with us in just a few years. Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... This page was last edited on 1 March 2025, at 13:36 ... List of predicted asteroid impacts on Earth.
Updated February 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM. ... The space agency said if a small 130- to 200-foot asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere over a populated area, an airburst could shatter windows or cause ...
The lists below are based on the close approach database of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), in its state as of 27 February 2025. [2] The database lists any approaches with a minimum distance less than 0.2 astronomical units (AU) from 1900 and until a century into the future which have been derived by orbit calculations.
The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more observations are made. ... Updated February 12, 2025 at ... NASA had set out to ...
The largest of them, dubbed 2002 NV16, is 580ft (177m) across and will reach a minimum distance of 4.5 million km (2.8 million miles) from Earth at around 3.50pm UTC.
The asteroid's provisional designation as a minor planet, "2024 YR 4", was assigned by the Minor Planet Center when its discovery was announced on 27 December 2024. [2] The first letter, "Y", indicates that the asteroid was discovered in the second half-month of December (16 to 31 December), and "R 4" indicates that it was the 117th provisional designation to be assigned in that half-month.