Skyscraper-sized asteroid 2008 OS7 zooms past Earth today. As of: February 2, 2024, 12:48 p.m.
The asteroid is traveling at a speed of 18.17 kilometers per second (about 75,000 km/h) It will come close to Earth for the next time on January 7, 2032 - but then it will remain 72 million kilometers away. An asteroid that is about the size of the Empire State Building would leave a crater more than four kilometers in diameter on Earth. Such an asteroid can definitely wipe out an entire city.