2025 September 20
2025 FA22 comes within 1 million km of Earth
2025 FA22 discovered by the Pan-STARRS 2 telescope in March 2025 it is believed to be between 130 and 290 metres across
Closest approach (approx 930000 km) was on 2025 09 18.
Initially it was thought to have a small chance of impacting the Earth in 2089 but this has now been discounted.
The video and still image were kindly provided by Mohammad Odeh of the Al Khatim Observatory in Abu Dhabi.
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