Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Oct 10
#Asteroid #2025TF ☄️ zipped past Earth above Antarctica, coming within 428 km of the surface. Roughly the size of a small car 🚗, it was detected hours ⏳ after the flyby https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251009033240.htm
Tiny asteroid flew right over Antarctica, and no one saw it coming

Asteroid 2025 TF zipped past Earth above Antarctica, coming within 428 km of the surface. Roughly the size of a small car, it was detected hours after the flyby and posed no danger. ESA astronomers later confirmed its trajectory with extraordinary accuracy.

ScienceDaily
Scripter Oct 8
Näher als die ISS: Wie konnte ein Asteroid unbemerkt an der Erde vorbeifliegen? | t3n
https://t3n.de/news/planetare-abwehr-warum-ein-asteroid-unbemerkt-blieb-1711115/ #Asteroid #2025TF
Show threadAstro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ✅🚀🛰️Oct 7
"Sneaky asteroid zooms past Antarctica closer than a satellite — and astronomers didn't catch it until hours after" by @LiveScience - More on #asteroid #2025TF which was only discovered after passing 265mi/428km above Antarctica. https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/sneaky-asteroid-zooms-past-antarctica-closer-than-a-satellite-and-astronomers-didnt-catch-it-until-hours-after #asteroid #astronomy #LowFlyingRocks
Sneaky asteroid zooms past Antarctica closer than a satellite — and astronomers didn't catch it until hours after

A small, giraffe-size asteroid called 2025 TF came closer to Earth than some satellites on Wednesday (Oct. 1), stunning astronomers who first spotted it hours later.

Live Science
TxiflitiOct 3

#Starlink11-39 misioa jaurti da #B1097-2 bultzatzailea erabiliz, 28 sateliterekin.

Axiom Space-k eraikitako #AxEMU ilargi-jantzi espazialaren proba berriekin jarraitzen da.

#2025TF izeneko asteroide bat arazorik gabe igaro zen 30ean Lurratik 400 kilometro ingurura.

#Espazioa

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ✅🚀🛰️Oct 3
"Asteroid 2025 TF flew just 420 km (260 miles) above Antarctica, second-closest flyby on record" by The Watchers - The #asteroid #2025TF was discovered 6 hours before closest approach to Earth. At 1.2-2.7m diameter, it would not have been a threat. As people, telescopes and computers get better at catching Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), the increasing pace of such news shows how common this has always been. https://watchers.news/2025/10/02/asteroid-2025-tf-flew-just-420-km-260-miles-above-antarctica-second-closest-flyby-on-record/ #asteroid #astronomy #LowFlyingRocks
Asteroid 2025 TF flew just 420 km (260 miles) above Antarctica, second-closest flyby on record

A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2025 TF made an extremely close approach to Earth at 00:49 UTC on October 1, 2025, reaching a nominal distance of 0.02 LD (0.00005 AU / 6 790 km / 4 220 miles)…

The Watchers