This 40-feet Asteroid Is Under NASA Lens; Speeding At 5780 MPH, Closest Earth Approach At 2.3 Mn Miles

Asteroid 2025 DB7 is all set for its closest Earth approach today and the US space agency, the National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA) is keeping a close tab on its orbit. The asteroid has already been dubbed as a near-Earth asteroid (NEO) by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Small-Body Database Lookup and indicated that it belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids. In fact, most of these space rocks heading towards Earth belong to the Apollo group. These are named after Asteroid (1862) Apollo. NASA says most NEOs are asteroids and can be anything between 10 feet to nearly 25 miles wide.

Back to Asteroid 2025 DB7. According to NASA, it will come as close as 2,300,000 miles to the Earth today. The size of this asteroid is approximately 40-feet. As far as the speed at which this space rock is travelling is concerned, then know that it is relatively slow, when compared to others. However, it is still speeding along at a whopping 5780 miles per hour.

A noteworthy point is that the asteroid will return next year too. This will be in January 2026. Its speed will increase, but at 5835 mph, it would not be by too much.

NASA has divided these NEOs (made up of asteroids and comets) into a separate grouping too. These are referred to as near-Earth asteroids (NEA). This grouping is made up exclusively of asteroids and there are 4 separate ones. NEAs are divided into Atira, Aten, Apollo and Amor asteroids.

Atira's estimated diameter is over 1855 metres, Aten is 1,100 metres, Apollo is 1500 metres, and Amor is 1000 metres.