Two Space Rocks (NEOs) Pass Between Earth And The Moon Tonight And On The 5th!

James Kaufman, World News Report, today, February 3rd, 2025. God bless you and yours, no matter where you are in the world. Please subscribe, give us a thumbs up, ring that bell for critical future updates. Ladies and gentlemen, we have two space rocks. They're going to fly between Earth and the Moon, hopefully. Tonight, i.e. tomorrow UTC, but tonight centrally here in the U.S. And then tomorrow, I'm going to go over those. This being the first one, we did go over this a week ago. This is 2025 BB-2. It's almost 100 feet, maybe larger in diameter, moving at 6.5 kilometers per second. Not a really fast clip. It does have a slight inclination as well, but it is a big rock, and again, set to pass between Earth and the moon. Closer approach to Earth looks like about 11:48 tonight centrally. That would be really UTC time, about 4:38. Alright, we can see they've gotten the condition code way down to a 6 from a 9. They're a little bit more certain where it's headed, but that's not very certain. 0 being they know exactly where the rock is headed, 9 being they have no idea. Looks like they've had 197 observations over a 12-day period. This was announced, or this is updated for today, so this is an all-new update. And of course, this was seen by our automatic software here. And let's get some close approach data. Looking at our close approach data with that many observations, it's amazing. They were only able to extrapolate so few flybys here. We'll jump to February 4th, which you would think would be tomorrow. But when you look at it, it's 4:38. So that's going to be 11:38 tonight. Of course, I'm talking central time. This is 438 UTC time. And it's going to come about .00195 astronomical units close to Earth, nominal, minimum, maximum distance, moving at about 6.5 kilometers per second, as we discussed. It's a big rock, but they don't have it coming real close to Earth. That's, well, just in the middle of. The moon and earth if you will. Heading over to our second rock that's supposed to pass on the fifth. I believe it's going to be the fourth central time here. 2025 CM. Hey, CM tell oh. And we can see the close approach will actually be here. Let's go there on fifth right there. You can see that it's very very close to earth. Gonna pass between earth and our moon again. We have good news. There's very little inclination whatsoever. This rock is about 50 feet in diameter, so half the size of the other larger rock. Again, this is 2025 CM and it's moving under seven kilometers per second, so not a very fast space rock either. All right, remember we're looking at the second of two space rocks. This is going to be again 2025 CM. Looks like the solution date was today. 47 total observations first spotted yesterday. Wow! We have a condition code of six, so we don't know exactly where this one's headed either. Not even close. Zero would mean we know exactly what was headed. A two or three would be much, well, make me feel much safer. This was spotted by our automatic software, of course, AI spotted it, 47 observations over one day, we see that, it was first spotted, first observed yesterday, again, 15 feet in diameter, we'll check the speed again, so, jumping down to 2025 CM, February 5th is what they're calling it out as, now it is... 21.59, so this should pass on the 5th, not tomorrow as I first said. It's going to be 0.002 astronomical units away from Earth, pretty close to what we saw, but a little bit further out, supposedly, although our condition code is still just at 6. And here, we're running just under 7 kilometers per second, as we discussed. Again, 2025 CM. About 50 to 60 feet in diameter, not moving real fast, no huge inclination, and not supposed to be a super close shave, although it is going to be moving between Earth and the moon on the 5th. So in closing, we've got 2025 BB2 inbound for tonight around 1148, a very large rock. I call it large, 10-story building large. It's going to come, according to JPL, 0.00195 astronomical units away from Earth. It is, again, about 100 feet plus in diameter, moving at 6.5 kilometers per second. It should be several thousand miles away from Earth. And that's going to be followed on the 5th by 2025 CM. And that's going to be coming in. At about seven kilometers per second, that rock's going to be about two, about 0.002 astronomical units away, so just slightly further away from Earth than the larger rock. Again, this rock was 50 feet in diameter, moving just under seven kilometers per second, so we have two slides through here in the next 40 hours or less. With that said, guys, Well, put your tinfoil hats on. God bless you guys. Share, subscribe, and always remember, anything's possible in Bizarro World.