An asteroid that could be as great as the Golden Gate bridge, in San Francisco, California, will pass without problems near the Earth on Thursday, June 5, 2025, according to experts.
The asteroid is larger than 97% of known asteroids, which turns its passage into a relatively rare event, despite the fact that asteroid 424482 (2008 DG5) does not represent any threat to Earth.
According to Spacereference.org, the asteroid 424482 (2008 DG5) measures between 310 and 690 meters, which places it in the higher 3% of the asteroids. In Manhattan, New York, that is the distance between Grand Central Station and the One World Trade Center.
It is known that it will go to 3.49 million kilometers from the earth, about nine times further than the moon, whose average distance is 384,400 kilometers.
The European Space Agency classifies such a close step of an asteroid of that size as rare.
Any object that approaches less than 7.4 million kilometers from the earth and that measures more than 150 meters can cause significant regional damage in case of impact. Therefore, NASA qualifies 2008 DG5 as a “potentially dangerous object.”
2008 DG5 is an Apollo Asteroid, that is, its orbit crosses the orbit of the Earth. Orbit around the sun every 514 terrestrial days and was discovered in 2008 by Catalina Sky Survey, near Tucson, Arizona, as part of the Observation program close to NASA’s land. Your next approach will be in 2032.
Although the 2008 DG5 asteroid does not represent any danger to the Earth, in case of impact it could cause catastrophic regional damage with shock waves and tsunamis.