SHOCKING: Asteroid Discovered Just Days Ago Will Buzz Earth TODAY (Closer Than the Moon) – What Experts and Investors Are Saying
Astronomers have identified Asteroid 2025 TP5 as a very close but safe Earth flyby. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab data, 2025 TP5 will swoop by at 4:09 p.m. EDT on Oct. 15, 2025, at ~60,328 miles from Earth’s centerspace.com. By comparison, the Moon orbits ~238,855 miles away. After the Earth flyby, JPL reports that 2025 TP5 will come as close as 74,616 miles to the Moon on Oct. 16space.com. At an estimated 54 ft diameterspace.com, it is a medium-sized near-Earth asteroid. Notably, 2025 TP5 was undetected until Oct. 13, just two days before its passspace.com, showing how last-minute such discoveries can be. The close approach is historic in how near it is – Space.com calls it “closer to Earth than the moon”space.com. Yet scientists emphasize no danger. The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Hawaii discovered TP5 and confirmed it “was not a threat”space.com. In fact, only much larger bodies crossing very near Earth trigger a “potentially hazardous” warningabcnews.go.com. By that standard, 2025 TP5 is about ten times smaller and will stay well outside any impact zone. Astronomers note that sub-25m asteroids typically burn up harmlessly if they enter the atmospherediscovermagazine.com, perhaps as bright fireballs.