Massive Asteroid Is Being Closely Watched

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00:00Massive asteroid is being closely watched.

00:03A skyscraper-sized asteroid just buzzed past Earth.

00:07And yep, we're somehow still here to talk about it.

00:10Spotted in the early hours of September 18th,

00:13this giant space rock, akin to a New York skyscraper,

00:16clocked at over 24,000 miles per hour.

00:19Its name? 2025 FA-22.

00:23Sounding more like a Star Wars droid than a threat,

00:25it's between 427 and 951 feet wide.

00:30That's the size of a 70-story building.

00:32If it had hit Earth, we wouldn't be here to joke about it.

00:36Now, here's the twist. No one's panicking.

00:39NASA and ESA confirm 2025 FA-22 won't hit Earth in upcoming passes,

00:46including 2089 and 2173.

00:50Not today, not tomorrow.

00:51And probably without a heads-up, just like this time.

00:55Still, the space agencies did throw in one of those

00:58casually terrifying science statements just for fun.

01:01Something like,

01:02Impacts on this scale are rare, but the consequences would be catastrophic.

01:07Translation. It's fine. Totally fine. Unless it's not.

01:12Sleep tight.

01:13The asteroid, first spotted in March via high-tech Hawaiian telescopes,

01:17was added to a watch list of maybe threats, in case it altered course.

01:21Thankfully, it didn't.

01:24Had it veered toward Earth, the consequences could have included city flattening,

01:27sky illumination, fires, tsunamis, and even internet disruptions.

01:31A truly catastrophic scenario.

01:34You can't see it with the naked eye.

01:35But astronomers say a good telescope or binoculars reveals it as a faint speck around 3.40 a.m. Eastern Time.

01:43Missed it? No worries.

01:44We'll get another chance in 64 years.

01:47Space teams with over 1.3 million asteroids,

01:50with 30,000-plus near-Earth objects zipping by.

01:54We're often dodging cosmic bullets.