Image credit: Photographs courtesy of Scott S. Sheppard
Posted on 10/24/2025 5:27:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Astronomers have discovered a 2,300-foot-wide (700 meters) asteroid hidden in the sun's glare, and it’s whizzing through our solar system at a near record-breaking pace.
The skyscraper-size asteroid, named 2025 SC79, loops around the sun once every 128 days, giving it the second-fastest asteroid orbit in the solar system. It is also only the second known space object that orbits entirely inside of Venus' orbit, occasionally even crossing the orbit of Mercury.
Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Science research institute in Washington, D.C., first spotted 2025 SC79 on Sep. 27...
To put its 2,300-foot diameter in context, the so-called "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 discovered earlier this year is only around 180 feet (55 meters) wide, and that has the potential to release 500 times more energy than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima if it were to hit Earth (don't worry, it almost certainly won't)...
This is the second super speedy asteroid spotted by Sheppard and his colleagues in recent years, having also discovered the fastest known asteroid in 2021. That object, named 2021 PH27, orbits the sun in 113 days, making it just 15 days quicker than 2025 SC79. The only object in the solar system with a faster orbital period is the planet Mercury, which completes an orbit of the sun in 88 days.
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Maybe it can say hi to 3i/Atlas while it’s behind the sun.
“(don’t worry, it almost certainly won’t)...”
Define ALMOST...............
Has Avi Loeb declared it to be an alien craft yet?
Is Earth getting a second moon? "ChicagoLIVE" talks with Derek Buzasi, Senior Instructional Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, who breaks down the viral "second moon" chatter. He explains what asteroid 2025 PN7 really is -- a quasi-moon, or temporary companion to Earth -- and why scientists believe it could orbit with us for the next 50 to 60 years before drifting away.Astronomer explains 'second moon'
-- the truth about asteroid 2025 PN7 | 9:26
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Turns out there really are such things as dumb questions.
Debris. Debris everywhere. I’d guess that the main mental characteristic driving flat earthers and moon landing deniers is that they’re neat nuts. The idea that space is filled with random crapola of various sizes and compositions must be worse that trying to fall asleep without checking to see if their shoes are touching.
Aristotle proclaimed that stones don’t fall from the sky, and that ridiculous bias held up until a meteorite came down and struck in the presence of some king or something, just a few centuries ago.
Right after he defines “super speedy.” I was hoping for Gigaspeedy or, at least, Megaspeedy. “Super” speedy is such a nebulous, vague term.
You’ll never see it coming, and nothing can be down to stop it at the current time, so, you won’t be told. 😁🌠
Super high frequency (SHF) is a radio frequency range of \(3\) to \(30\) gigahertz (GHz)...............So ‘Super’ is in the GigaSpeedy range............
Half or more of the people wouldn’t believe it anyway...........
Matthew 24:29....”...the powers of the heavens will be shaken”....
How can these relatively small objects have been traveling so fast that they are not sucked into the sun? Anybody got the equations? How long can the orbit last?
Seems like the heavens aren’t the stable, timeless, panoply of dark/anti-/ matter and energy (dark/negative) resting comfortably as so often depicted...
Skyscraper sized? That’s not even a Manhattan or a Rhode Island. Pathetic.
“Turns out there really are such things as dumb questions.”
That’s the third biggest lie. Everyone knows what the first two are...
Too much high faluting jibber-jabber and technical talk for me.
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