Car-size asteroid zips by Earth at only 16,300 miles away - See a pic & orbit

Asteroid 2021 GW4 made a very close flyby of Earth on April 12, 2021. Its closest approach was calculated to be about about 16,300 miles away (26,232 km). Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope project captured imagery of the space rock a few hours before the flyby.

Credit: Space.com | orbit animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech / imagery: Gianluca Masi/Virtual Telescope Project | produced & edited by Steve Spaleta (http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta)