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2025-09-27 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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A two-meter asteroid, 2025 SU4, flew close to Earth at the altitude of satellites.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A two-meter asteroid flew close to Earth at an altitude of 20,000 km on September 24. This was reported by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"On Wednesday, September 24, a small asteroid named 2025 SU4, with a diameter of two meters, flew very close to the planet, passing at 11:30 a.m. Moscow time at a distance of just over 20,000 km (approximately at the altitude of GLONASS and GPS satellites)," reads a statement published on the laboratory's Telegram channel.
"It was the size of a large Kenmore side-by-side refrigerator/freezer"
The asteroid was discovered less than a day before its closest approach to Earth. The publication stated that it posed no threat due to its small size.
Scientists noted that the object was classified as belonging to the Aten family. Currently, this family includes approximately 3,000 celestial bodies, of which approximately 200 are classified as potentially hazardous asteroids.
In December 2024, astronomers at the ATLAS observatory in Chile discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. They estimated the asteroid's diameter to be between 40 and 90 meters, making it similar in size to the Tunguska meteorite. NASA initially estimated the probability of a collision between Earth and this celestial body to be within 1%; on February 7, 2025, the agency reported that this figure had risen to 2.3%.
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