Overview

• The asteroid measures 1,017–2,264 feet, placing it in the top 3% of known asteroids and qualifying it as a potentially hazardous object.
• On June 5 it will fly by at about 2.17 million miles from Earth—nine times the distance to the Moon—with no threat of impact.
• Discovered in 2008 by the Catalina Sky Survey, the Apollo‐class asteroid completes an orbit around the Sun every 514 days.
• The European Space Agency rates close approaches of this scale as infrequent, underscoring the rarity of such large near-Earth passes.
• An impact by an asteroid this size could trigger regional devastation from shockwaves and tsunamis, though no collision is expected.