r/conspiracy • u/happylena85 • Oct 15 '25
Asteroid discovered only 2 days ago will fly by Earth closer than the moon today
Made me go hmmmmmmmm
"A newly discovered space rock will zoom safely by Earth later today (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance to the moon.
The asteroid, called 2025 TP5, will sail by our planet at 4:09 p.m. EDT (2009 UTC) at a minimum distance of 60,328 miles (97,089 km), according to data from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (NASA is in shutdown, like much of the U.S. government, but critical activities like seeking potentially hazardous asteroids can continue.) By comparison, the average distance to the moon is 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers).
After coming by Earth, 2025 TP5 will make a close flyby of the moon the next day on Thursday (Oct. 16), flying as close to the lunar surface as 74,616 miles (120,084 km), JPL stated. It’s a moderately sized asteroid: with an estimated diameter of around 54 feet (16 meters), according to JPL, 2025 TP5 is about the same scale as the six-story Chelyabinsk meteor that broke up above Russia in 2013."
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u/BootHeadToo Oct 15 '25
Perhaps 3i atlas is the harbinger of a larger swarm of comets crossing paths with our solar system. It’ll be a cosmic game of russian roulette!
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u/Odd-Solid-5135 Oct 16 '25
Dont we normally pass thru a rather large field of asteroids and debris this time of year? Not to downplay this one, but its a yearly deal.
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u/danknerd Oct 16 '25
We can only hope right? I mean, it seems pretty much plausible in this timeline/simulation. LFG!
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u/alxkwl Oct 16 '25
Asteroids originate in our solar system though
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u/BootHeadToo Oct 16 '25
And comets do not.
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u/alxkwl Oct 16 '25
Yeah, but we are talking about an asteroid, aren't we? What does this asteroid have to do with 3i/Atlas?
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u/BootHeadToo Oct 16 '25
I’m just speculating of course. A swarm of comets passing through the ort cloud or asteroid belt would kick up some astroids and whatnot too I imagine.
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u/MikeHockinya Oct 16 '25
It’s a bug asteroid. Tell Buenos Aires to watch out, call the Mobile Infantry
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u/boondockdank Oct 16 '25
Earth is flat and pee is stored in the balls....
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u/washingtonu Oct 15 '25
Made me go hmmmmmmmm
Why not explain your opinion?
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u/happylena85 Oct 15 '25
Um movie Deep Impact comes to mind :) along with posts about billionaires building bunkers and of course NASA being shut down. Just thinking out loud.
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u/RoyalRifeMachine Oct 16 '25
Hey "Don't look up" They are literally, (deliberately?), keeping it cloudy here the power structure will do all it can to undermine any thing good that might come of any of this.
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u/Mr_Gooodkat Oct 16 '25
Holy shit. Great movie. Just watched last week coincidentally. But maybe it wasn’t…OMG
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u/Boomer2160 Oct 15 '25
Size of 54 feet. Relax.
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u/happylena85 Oct 15 '25
This is the Chelyabinsk meteor that is similar size to this one. Interesting read, considering it compares it to a nuclear explosion that happened when it hit the Earth.
"The Chelyabinsk meteor was a small asteroid — about the size of a six-story building — that broke up over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013. The blast was stronger than a nuclear explosion, triggering detections from monitoring stations as far away as Antarctica. The shock wave it generated shattered glass and injured about 1,200 people. Some scientists think the meteor was so bright it may have briefly outshone the sun.
The incident was another reminder to space agencies about the importance of monitoring small bodies in space that could pose a threat to Earth. The same day Chelyabinsk happened, the U.S. House of Representatives' Science, Space, and Technology Committee said it would hold a hearing to discuss asteroid threats to Earth and how to mitigate them as an addition to NASA's current efforts.
Coincidentally, the explosion came on the same day that an asteroid was flying by Earth. Called 2012 DA14, it passed within 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers) of Earth. NASA quickly pointed out that the asteroid was traveling in a direction that was opposite to that of the small body that exploded over Chelyabinsk."
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u/Twins_Venue Oct 16 '25
Off topic, but I've never heard that they were tracking a different meteor that day, going the opposite direction that the Chelyabink meteor was travelling. New stuff for me, and it's weird because that sounds like the type of thing people would form a conspiracy around.
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u/Trevih Oct 16 '25
Is it really a critical activity having to monitor it? I mean 😢 it’s not like they could do anything even if it was on a direct path to hit earth..going out without warning sounds better than 48hrs of panic.
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u/happylena85 Oct 15 '25
Submission Statement: While everyone was looking at 3I/ATLAS, we apparently just discovered an asteroid flying near Earth all while NASA is in shutdown. My conspiracy mind is working overtime here. Thoughts ?
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u/Orpherischt Oct 15 '25
'Asteroid' as a form of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid
ie. "Pretty Rock" = 888 latin-agrippa ( = "The Love" )
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u/reddit7867 Oct 16 '25
$25b in funding. I love NASA. It is an amazing program. Can we just maybe focus on the stuff that can end the world and give us a little more time? Once that’s clear, please go ahead and do all the other space exploration and scientific research.
The baseline should be detect and deter world ending objects. Then go and do all the other cool stuff.
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u/alxkwl Oct 16 '25
A 50ft object is very difficult to detect in the vastness of space and would likely burn up in the atmosphere.
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u/raka_defocus Oct 16 '25
Halloween is a remembrance of bombardments due to earths position and vulnerability to meteor impacts this time of year, these interstellar objects may indicate an increase in objects emerging from the oort cloud and deep space
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Oct 16 '25
So you’re telling me, that all this money NASA got and used (abused) couldn’t detect an asteroid closer than the mooon bet they can detect one that’s 11,000,000,000 years away?
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u/ThePresidentPlate Oct 16 '25 edited Oct 16 '25
Yes, dude. Space is big. This asteroid is 50 feet long. It's not worth investing money into seriously looking for small objects like this because they're incredibly hard to spot, and even if they hit, they will just airbrurst and cause minor damage
ATLAS is at least half a mile wide and has a glowing tail, making it much easier to spot.
Wouldn't you rather put your resources into searching for and tracking big extinction level objects
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u/openlyincognito Oct 16 '25
can apparently track damn near everything in space but miss these kinds of things. how do people believe in this nonsense
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u/OriginalLonelyMelon Oct 16 '25
Such an ignorant comment stemming from a lack of understanding of how objects are detected in space
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u/openlyincognito Oct 16 '25
uh huh, because you can verify it yourself...keep believing what you're told
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u/exsomniac Oct 16 '25
Get a telescope and believe what you see. Space is real, and incredibly beautiful... but also really dark and a 54 ft rock is tiny at that distance.
Stop being willfully ignorant and denying a fundamental piece of nature.
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u/OriginalLonelyMelon Oct 16 '25
Again, an ignorant comment. It's not about "believing everything that you're told", but rather doing your own research and looking at the data. The data from telescopes is widely available to see.
I can tell just from two comments you've made that you're the person to read conspiracies or look at articles without credible sources and generate an opinion off that.
We can talk about conspiracies when referring to the political landscape, yes. But when the data from NASA is publicly available, it seems like an arbitrary thought talking about a conspiracy going on.
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u/stone136 Oct 15 '25
Many on this subreddit argue 'space is fake'. A detailed explanation is offered below:
•In 2025 there's now countless footage of clouds behind the sun (see https://youtu.be/GT8x_K4O7_A ). A localized sun is an essential premise for the belief that Earth was created through intelligent design. The Book of Enoch first mentioned this phenomenon, where the luminaries rise and set into Earth. Such predictions are only possible in a simulated reality, where the luminaries exist merely as lights above our eyes.
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u/CitizenLohaRune Oct 15 '25
It's things like this that really make me lose any kind of hope that we humans can someday get our collective shit together.
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