An asteroid was spotted whizzing past Earth last week in the second closest approach to the planet ever recorded, according to authorities.

Asteroid 2025 TF soared over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. last Tuesday, roughly 266 miles above Earth’s surface, the European Space Agency said in a statement Monday.

“This is a similar altitude to the orbit of the International Space Station, and one of the closest approaches ever recorded,” the agency wrote on X .

Asteroid 2025 TF soared over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. last Tuesday, roughly 266 miles above Earth’s surface. ESA

The asteroid, which was roughly 3 to 10 feet across, was first spotted by the Catalina Sky Survey based at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Lab in Tucson, astronomers said.

“ Objects of this size

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