Asteroids Discovered In 2024

Asteroids Discovered In 2024. Just a couple of weeks later, on 6 june 2024, the catalina sky survey in arizona, usa, discovered a small asteroid 2—4 m in size that triggered an alert from esa’s imminent impact monitoring system (meerkat). That alert was not for an impact, but for a very close call.

The dashboard displays the next five earth approaches to within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the moon); Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere 50 km west of berlin, producing a stunning fireball.