The asteroid is thought to measure about 656 feet across, which would make it taller than the Space Needle in Seattle.
Astronomers have captured an image of a potentially hazardous asteroid shortly before it's set to make a close approach to the Earth.'s Center for Near Earth Object studies shows that the asteroid—known as 2007 FF1—will come as close as around 4.6 million miles of our planet at 9:35 p.m. UTC on April 1, 2022.
On March 24, astronomer Gianluca Masi with the Virtual Telescope Project snapped an image of 2007 FF1 using the 17-inch"Elena" remotely operated, robotic telescope in Ceccano, Italy—located around 60 miles south of Rome. An image captured by astronomer Gianluca Masi of The Virtual Telescope Project showing the potentially hazardous asteroid 2007 FF1 on March 24, 2022, when the space rock was located around 7.2 million miles away from Earth.The asteroid was discovered on March 17, 2007, by the Catalina Sky Survey—a NASA-funded project based at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Lab in Tucson.
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