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| One of the largest asteroids in 2025 safely flew past Earth. |
| 2025-09-19 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Moscow, September 18, 2025, 12:14 PM — Regnum News Agency. Asteroid 2025 FA22, one of the largest asteroids expected in 2025, safely passed by Earth and the Moon at a minimum distance of approximately 800,000 km at 10:41 AM Moscow time. This was reported on Thursday, September 18, by the press service of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Scientists noted that the space body was discovered in March and for some time it was at the top of the European Space Agency's list of potentially hazardous objects. "Yesterday, a day before the closest approach, this probability was already estimated to be significantly lower, but it is still only now that we can definitively state that the body has passed both the Earth and the Moon," the laboratory's website states. Now the brightness of the object moving away from the Earth in the sky is rapidly increasing, as it crossed the orbit of our planet from the inside and was illuminated by the Sun from behind, and now it is completely illuminated. “It will reach its brightest in the sky on September 20–21, when it will have a stellar magnitude of 15, which still makes it impossible to observe either by eye or with the most accessible amateur instruments,” the scientists added. According to them, the next time the celestial body will fly by Earth is in 11 years—on August 20, 2036—but at a distance 25 times greater than its current one. Dangerously close approaches are expected in 2089 and especially in 2173. |
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