It will pass Earth on Monday, July 28 with 390,000 miles remaining, according to NASA’s plan. NASA’s online visualization of the massive space rock is available for viewing.
This is almost 1.6 times the typical distance to the moon, according to NASA. The moon and Earth are typically separated by roughly 239,000 miles (385,000 kilometers). Although it may seem extremely fast, the 2025 OW is traveling at 46,908 miles per hour, which is quite normal and shouldn’t cause any concern.

Speaking to ABC News, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory media relations specialist Ian O’Neill said: “This is very routine. If there was a threat, you would hear from us. We would always put out alerts on our planetary defence blog.”
According to Davide Farnocchia, a fellow NASA specialist in the space center’s Near-Earth Object Studies division, the