2025 BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
An asteroid the size of a school bus is set to zoom by the Earth on Tuesday, traveling several times faster than a speeding bullet.The asteroid, named 2025 BS4, is said by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be roughly 22 feet in diameter, with JPL's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies estimated that it could be between 17 and 40 feet across.The average American school bus is roughly 35 to 40 feet long, for reference.The asteroid has a speed of 16.
Due to its proximity to the Earth, 2025 BS4 is classified as a near-Earth object , which are defined as objects that come within about 120 million miles of the sun, or 30 million miles of Earth.Objects and asteroids that come within around 4.6 million miles of the Earth and have a diameter of at least 460 feet.'A PHA is one that has an orbit intersecting the Earth's orbit around the sun by less than 0.05 astronomical units , that's just over 4.
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