Big Asteroid’s Closest Fly-By In At Least 400 Years - Orbit Animation

Friday, April 7, 2017 - 11:31 in Astronomy & Space

A ~2000-foot (~650 m) asteroid named 2014 JO25 will fly by Earth on April 19, 2017. It will pass at a safe distance of ~1.1 million miles (1.8 million km).

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