Tag: Asteroid 2025 TF
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Close shave: 9.8-foot asteroid 2025 TF narrowly misses Earth, spotted hours later
Asteroid 2025 TF: a very small visitor with a timed surprise Astronomers confirmed a surprising close encounter with a tiny asteroid known as 2025 TF. Although it registered no threat to Earth, the event drew attention to how many small space rocks zip past our planet every year without immediate notice. ESA researchers categorized the…
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Near-Earth 9.8-Foot Asteroid 2025 TF Narrowly Misses Earth
Overview: A Coincidental Close Call A tiny visitor from space—2025 TF, a 3-meter-wide asteroid—roared past Earth at an altitude of roughly 265 miles (428 kilometers) on October 1. The close approach, closer than the orbit of the International Space Station, occurred over Antarctica and went undetected for several hours. Although the rock posed no real…