{"id":167582,"date":"2025-09-19T12:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167582\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:26:17","slug":"massive-asteroid-bigger-than-a-skyscraper-heading-toward-earth-at-24000-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167582\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive asteroid bigger than a skyscraper heading toward Earth at 24,000 mph"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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Bennu could collide with Earth in the late 2100’s.<\/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

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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.<\/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.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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