A tiny asteroid, about the size of a person, passed Earth on July 12, 2025, creating a minor celestial event.
This asteroid measures around 2.0 meters (6.6 feet) across, comparable to a human adult.
There was no danger of impact for this object on July 12, 2025.
An asteroid of this size would completely disintegrate in the atmosphere, creating a brief but bright meteor visible from the ground.
Thousands of small meteoroids this size burn up in Earth's atmosphere every day, usually unnoticed except in ideal dark-sky conditions.
Apophis will pass extremely close in 2029.
Near-Earth asteroids are remnants from the solar system's formation, and NASA tracks over 35,000 of them.
Events like this occur daily and are part of Earth's ongoing interaction with space debris.