A car-sized asteroid, 2024 GJ2, made a close but harmless pass by Earth at a distance of 12,000 miles. Astronomers believe it would have burned up in Earth's atmosphere if its orbit intersected ours more directly.
Asteroid 2024 GJ2 is roughly the size of a car and, since its discovery this week, astronomers calculated that the space rock would graze by Earth at a mere 12-thousand-mile distance — that's just three percent the distance between the Earth and the moon. 2024 GJ2 measures between 2.5 and 5 meters , according to the European Space Agency .
—'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life and minerals unseen on Earth, scientists reveal in 1st comprehensive analysis The next closest flyby of 2024 GJ2 won't occur until 2093, according to ESA's near-Earth objects coordination center. When that happens, the asteroid won't pass nearly as close as it did today. GJ2's 2093 approach is estimated to fly as close as 127,970 miles to us — 10 times further than today's flyby, and just over half the distance between Earth and the moon.
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