Just Found! Asteroid 2015 SZ2 Close Encounter with Earth Sept. 30, 2015 / Watch the Next 5 Close Approaches
The space rock is expected to reach a point about 314,000 miles from our planet (1.3 LD).
The 99 feet extraterrestrial visitor will not poses any threat to our planet, experts say.
2015 SZ2 discovered only 2 days ago!
While NASA makes a point to monitor asteroids that have the potential to enter Earth’s “air space,” sometimes the smaller asteroids, such as this one, aren’t discovered until they’re very close to Earth.
Of course, the bigger the object, the easier it is to spot.
For the foreseeable future, Earth will continue to reside in a cosmic shooting gallery with an enormous
number of currently unknown objects, some of which may have a direct bead on us without our knowing.
"We need to find them before they find us!" Slooh's technical and research director, Paul Cox said in a statement a few months ago.
(2015 SZ2) Classification: Apollo [NEO]
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