The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 ON was discovered on 27 July 2024 by the Atlas Sky Survey. Its diameter is estimated in the 220-480 meters range meters, while the minimum distance will be reached on 17 Sept., at 10:18 UTC (source: Nasa/JPL). Of course, there are no risks at all for our planet.
Two asteroids are set to glide past Earth on September 24, 2024. Among them, one stands out due to its massive size of 120 feet. Asteroid 2024 RO11: This asteroid is approximately 120 feet in diameter, about the size of a small airplane.
The skyscraper-size asteroid, named 2024 ON, has an estimated diameter between 721 and 1,575 feet (220 to 480 meters), and will zip past the Earth at 19,842 mph (31933 km/h) — or around 26 times the speed of sound.
A new near-Earth asteroid is discovered on June 5, 2024 by the Catalina Sky Survey, a program operated by the University of Arizona and funded by NASA. The asteroid was detected at apparent magnitude 21.5, a typical magnitude at which asteroids are discovered in 2024.
This giant asteroid, 2024 ON, has a diameter of 720 feet (roughly bigger than the size of two cricket pitches) and is expected to pass close to Earth on September 15, 2024. It will pass at 620,000 miles, approximately 2.6 times the distance between Earth and the Moon.
NASA has issued an alert about a massive asteroid named 2024 ON, measuring 720 feet in diameter (roughly bigger than two cricket pitches), which is expected to closely approach Earth on September 15, 2024, at a distance of 620,000 miles.
NASA is closely watching two asteroids on a flyby path. Scheduled to pass near Earth on 15 October 2024, these celestial bodies offer exciting research prospects. While they will come close, experts assure there is no danger to our planet.
The US Space Agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory estimates that the asteroid known as 2024 ON will be 290 meters (950 feet) across and will approach Earth within 1 million kilometers. NASA data indicates that the space rock will make another approach to Earth in 2035, having last passed Earth in 2013.
Compared to Earth's moon, which has a diameter of 2,159 miles, asteroid 2024 PT5 is just a tiny spec measuring at about 33 feet wide. That's about the width of a city bus.
A NASA analysis from 2021 found Apophis' current trajectory doesn't pose a threat to Earth. While it will pass close to the planet in 2029 and 2036, NASA says it's unlikely to pose a real threat to our home planet for at least another 100 years.
More observations refined its path around the Sun and excluded Earth, bringing the probability of a 2029 impact down to zero. What would happen if Apophis hit Earth? Apophis would cause widespread destruction up to several hundred of kilometers from its impact site.
The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 was first observed on Aug. 7, 2024, by the Sutherland, South Africa telescope of the University of Hawai'i's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), which is funded by NASA.
A day after announcing that an asteroid could collide with Earth in 2030 (ScienceNOW, 3 November), scientists with the International Astronomical Union (IAU) downgraded that chance to zero. New calculations show that asteroid 2000 SG344 will pass at least 4.4 million kilometers from Earth.
If asteroid 2024 ON had hit Earth, the damage would have been immense. Its impact could have triggered an explosion in the atmosphere, creating a massive shockwave. However, the asteroid will safely pass by earth, according to latest calculations. Although the high speed of the space rock is concering astronomers.
On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days, but is too small to be visible to amateur skywatchers.
Blue whale-sized 110ft asteroid heading towards Earth at a speed of 30,381 km/h, NASA warns. Asteroid 2024 OR1, a 110-foot space rock traveling at 30,381 km/h, is set to pass close to Earth on August 6, 2024. Part of the Apollo group, it was detected by NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies.
At the time, Earth was populated by dinosaurs, who had been the dominant life form for nearly 200 million years. The Chicxulub impactor is widely thought to have changed all that, leading to the dinosaur's… eventual extinction (and the evolution of surviving dinosaurs into today's birds).
Based on mathematical models, our longest potential lifespan is around 150 years. But, we know that genetic manipulation of model organisms increases it by up to 100%. So, humans can live up to 244 years. But he doesn't stop there.
According to their calculations, 2024 RV50 is scheduled to pass Earth on October 18 at a speed of 16 km/second at a distance of about 7.42 million km. The next time this asteroid will encounter our planet will be on October 18, 2064, when it come nearer at a distance of about 5.67 million km.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is gearing up for a cosmic event. On 13 September 2024, two asteroids, 2024 RZ10 and 2024 RZ10, will make close approaches to Earth. While it may sound like a space thriller, there's no cause for alarm.
On September 15, 2024, another asteroid flyby occurred close to the Earth, though it was non-dangerous and hence garnered a lot of attention from scientists, space agencies, and the general public.
