Overview

• NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies reports that 2025 OW will pass 633,000 km (1.6 lunar distances) from Earth on July 28 without any impact risk.
• At roughly 64 meters long and traveling about 75,000 km/h, the asteroid is comparable to a commercial airliner but remains too dim for amateur telescopes.
• Precise orbital calculations by JPL and CNEOS guarantee knowledge of the rock’s path for the next century and show similar-sized impacts occur only once every 10,000 years.
• NASA tracks dozens of near-Earth asteroids weekly and has identified five other bodies with close approaches scheduled in the coming week.
• The agency is preparing public outreach for asteroid Apophis’s April 2029 flyby, which will pass within 38,000 km and be visible to the naked eye.