Description

Asteroid ID : here (https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/asteroids/asteroid/?asteroid_id=20…)

TL:DR

• At least one social media account presented radar images labeled as a 300-meter disk-shaped object of “unknown origin” observed 18.5 million km from Earth on January 7, 2025, questioning if it’s an alien spaceship.
• The video recycles 2017 Arecibo Observatory radar data of known near-Earth asteroid 226514 (2003 UX34), a roughly 300m object that made a close approach around that distance in early 2025.

User question:

How could an asteroid be this circular?

NASA answer:

The circular look comes from how delay-Doppler radar imaging works—it plots range vs. rotation speed, so roughly spherical or rounded rubble-pile asteroids naturally appear disk-like. It’s ordinary science data, not an alien spaceship.