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NASA Tracking Car-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Today [Video]

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NASA is tracking a car-sized asteroid that’s soaring past Earth today at around 15,000 miles per hour.

Estimated to measure around 12 feet across, the asteroid known as “2025 DQ” is expected to zoom past our planet at a distance of about 186,000 miles, according to NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

According to the JPL’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the asteroid could be anywhere between around nine and 20 feet in diameter.

2025 DQ is not the only space rock that will be within the vicinity of our planet today. The “2012 DZ”—estimated to be anywhere between around 52 feet and 118 feet in diameter—will also make a close approach this evening, reaching around 662,000 miles from Earth, according to the CNEOS.

A stock image showing an illustration of an asteroid approaching Earth. iStock / Getty Images Plus

Earlier this week on Tuesday, updated data from the CNEOS showed the impact probability of an asteroid known as “2024 YR4” …

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