The asteroid is projected to make its closest pass on February 14, 2026, and is classified under the "Potentially Hazardous Asteroids" umbrella.

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path is dangerously close to our planet’s trajectory in the

Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by people.

The viral video was captured on an Earth Cam situated at Malcolm Martin Memorial Park in east St. Louis. The camera is angled directly towards the city’s skyline all day, every day. Meteorologist Angela Hutti told Fox 2 Now that the green spark was likely a byproduct of a meteor burning up.