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Meteorite spotted in the Southern sky
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)
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A massive asteroid 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.
They say the asteroid, officially dubbed “2025 FA22,” is set to race past the planet at more than 24,000 miles per hour, plus that it will do so again in 2089 and 2173.
The asteroid measures between 427 and 951 feet across, similar in size to a large skyscraper.
FILE PHOTO: Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact in this image taken by DART’s on board DRACO imager from a distance of 68 kilometers, and released September 26, 2022. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Handout via REUTERS)
Asteroids are rocky formations of the solar system from billions of years ago that are seen orbiting the sun and can be different sizes.
NASA estimates more than 1.3 million asteroids are in the solar system, with over 30,000 classified as near-Earth objects.
NASA’s Asteroid Watch always monitors asteroids that could come within 4.6 million miles of Earth.
Any object larger than 492 feet passing within 4.6 million miles of Earth earns a “potentially hazardous” label.
Fox News Digital has reached out to NASA for comment.
