A newly discovered asteroid designated 2025 TP2 will fly past Earth at a distance of 0.25 LD (0.00065 AU \/ 97 158 km \/ 60 371 miles) from the center of our planet at 20:08 UTC on October 15, 2025.<\/p>\n
This is the 125th<\/sup> known asteroid to fly past Earth since the start of the year and the 8th<\/sup> so far this month. 26 such objects flew past us during the month of September.<\/p>\n 2025 TP2 was first observed at ATLAS-MLO, Mauna Loa, Hawaii, on October 13, 2025 \u2014 two days before its close approach to Earth.<\/p>\n The object belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids and has an estimated diameter between 13 and 30 m (43 to 98 feet). This is comparable to the object that disintegrated over Chelyabinsk, Russia, on February 15, 2013, damaging more than 7 000 buildings and injuring about 1 500 people.<\/p>\n At the time of its closest approach, 2025 TP2 is expected to travel at a relative velocity of about 8.37 km\/s (5.2 mi\/s) with respect to Earth. Shortly after that, at 09:25 UTC on October 16, it will pass the Moon at a distance of 0.00080 AU (119 640 km \/ 74 340 miles).<\/p>\n According to data from NASA\u2019s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), 2025 TP2 follows a moderately elongated orbit with an eccentricity of 0.49, a semi-major axis of 1.89 AU, and an inclination of 1.47\u00b0. Its Earth Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance (MOID) is 0.000603 AU (90 200 km \/ 56 000 miles), placing it within the range of close-approaching near-Earth objects. The orbital period is approximately 2.6 years.<\/p>\n References:<\/p>\n![\"asteroid](\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/asteroid-2025-TP5-close-approach-october-15-2025-orbit-diagram.webp\")