Asteroid Near Earth 2024

Asteroid Near Earth 2024. Called 2024 dw, the newfound asteroid is about 42 feet (13 meters) wide and will fly within 140,000 miles (225,000 kilometers) of the earth when it passes by us on thursday. A newly discovered space rock will harmlessly pass earth today.

Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere. 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);