NASA photos show huge Empire State Building-sized asteroid that buzzed past Earth

NASA recently captured an image of a strange, 1,600-foot long asteroid that breezed past Earth earlier this month.

Early in February, an asteroid estimated to be at least 1,600 feet long breezed past Earth at roughly 1.1 million miles out. While it never threatened our planet, per se, the asteroid 2011 AG5 was particularly interesting to NASA’s asteroid watchers due to its oblong shape. Now,2011 AG5 passed Earth on February 3. As it did, scientists with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California observed the asteroid to gather better measurements and data about the peculiar space rock.

2011 AG5 as it floats through space. The asteroid is more elongated than any other asteroid NASA has observed. Image source: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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