‘Potentially hazardous’ 600-foot asteroid detected near Earth after a year of hiding in plain sight

Astronomers have found a large, skyscraper-size asteroid hiding in plain sight close to Earth, due to a brand new algorithm designed to hunt the largest, deadliest house rocks. 

The 600-foot-wide (180 meters) asteroid — now formally named 2022 SF289 — is massive sufficient and orbits carefully sufficient to Earth to be thought-about a doubtlessly hazardous asteroid (PHA) — one in all roughly 2,300 equally classed objects that would trigger widespread destruction on Earth ought to a direct collision happen. (Fortunately, there isn’t a threat of collision with this rock at any level within the foreseeable future.)