Asteroid Hitting Earth 2024 Path

Asteroid Hitting Earth 2024 Path. 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); An asteroid that was lost in 2007 has a slim chance of hitting the earth next year, according to nasa.

Part of nasa’s deep space network, the goldstone solar system radar, near barstow in california, will track the object during its next close pass of our planet, in january. Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole.