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Skyscraper-Sized Asteroid 2025 SC79 Poses Potential Impact Risk

10/26/2025

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Astronomers have identified a skyscraper-sized asteroid named 2025 SC79 that orbits the sun every 128 days.
Carnegie Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard first observed 2025 SC79 on September 27.
Its orbit lies within Venus's orbit and it carries a potential impact risk.
Future observations will determine its composition and origin.
It remains behind the sun and will be invisible for several months.

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Astronomers have identified a skyscraper-sized asteroid named 2025 SC79 that orbits the sun every 128 days.
Carnegie Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard first observed 2025 SC79 on September 27.
Its orbit lies within Venus's orbit and it carries a potential impact risk.
Future observations will determine its composition and origin.
It remains behind the sun and will be invisible for several months.