{"id":234868,"date":"2025-09-17T22:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/234868\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T22:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:27:11","slug":"skyscraper-sized-asteroid-to-race-past-earth-at-high-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/234868\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyscraper-sized asteroid to race past Earth at high speed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meteorite spotted in the Southern sky<\/a> <\/p>\n

Dashcam footage captures a large fireball in the sky over Lexington, South Carolina, which was recently confirmed to be a meteorite fragment that crashed into a Georgia home on June 26, 2025. (Credit: William Jackson\/TMX)<\/p>\n

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A massive asteroid<\/a> nearly the size of a New York skyscraper will make a close approach, or pass, by Earth in the early hours of Sept. 18, according to scientists.<\/p>\n

They say the asteroid, officially dubbed “2025 FA22,” is set to race past the planet at more than 24,000 mph, and will do so again in 2089 and 2173.<\/p>\n

The asteroid measures between 427 and 951 feet across, similar in size to a large skyscraper.<\/p>\n

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NASA announced that a skyscraper-sized asteroid would be passing “relatively close” to Earth on Tuesday. (iStock)<\/p>\n

NASA<\/a> and the European Space Agency (ESA) have confirmed it poses no immediate threat because updated measurements have ruled out a collision and the asteroid has now been taken off the risk table.<\/p>\n

“Impacts on this scale are rare, but the consequences would be catastrophic,” ESA researchers said, with the pass Thursday morning offering a rare opportunity to study a skyscraper-sized asteroid up close.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Astronomers first detected 2025 FA22 in March using a special telescope in Hawaii. It was then added to ESA\u2019s watch list of possible dangerous asteroids.\u00a0<\/p>\n

HARVARD PHYSICIST SAYS MYSTERIOUS INTERSTELLAR OBJECT COULD BE NUCLEAR-POWERED SPACESHIP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Bennu could collide with Earth in the late 2100’s. (Reuters)<\/p>\n

Because of its size and speed, if 2025 FA22 did strike Earth, it could crush a major city and other areas, setting off fires and tsunamis.<\/p>\n

People won\u2019t be able to see 2025 FA22, but astronomers with strong telescopes or binoculars could spot it as a faint dot against the stars around 3:40 a.m. ET Sept. 18.<\/p>\n

METEORITE FRAGMENT THAT SLAMMED THROUGH HOMEOWNER’S ROOF IS BILLIONS OF YEARS OLD, PREDATES EARTH: PROFESSOR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact in this image taken by DART\u2019s on board DRACO imager from a distance of 68 kilometers, and released Sept. 26, 2022. (NASA\/Johns Hopkins APL\/Handout via Reuters)<\/p>\n

Asteroids are rocky formations of the solar system from billions of years ago that are seen orbiting the sun and can be different sizes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NASA estimates more than 1.3 million asteroids are in the solar system, with over 30,000 classified as near-Earth objects.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NASA’s Asteroid Watch always monitors asteroids that could come within 4.6 million miles of Earth.<\/p>\n

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Any object larger than 492 feet passing within 4.6 million miles of Earth earns a “potentially hazardous” label.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital has reached out to NASA for comment.<\/p>\n

Emma Bussey is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked at The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, across desks including foreign, politics, news, sport and culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meteorite spotted in the Southern sky Dashcam footage captures a large fireball in the sky over Lexington, South…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":234869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[9603,916,159,783,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-234868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-asteroids","9":"tag-nasa","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115221996732671349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}