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Once-In-A-Decade Close Encounter With Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22 Approaches

Once-In-A-Decade Close Encounter With Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22 Approaches
science9/10/2025

The potentially hazardous asteroid will be monitored worldwide by the International Asteroid Warning Network as it reaches magnitude 13.2 on its closest approach.

2025 FA22 was discovered on March 29 this year by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS 2) observatory in Hawaii. The asteroid is currently thought to be around 120–280 meters (394–919 feet) in size, making it a fairly ... [2833 chars]