Asteroid Hitting Earth In 2024. Assembled into this animation, observations from nasa’s goldstone solar system radar show the tumbling asteroid 2024 mk shortly after it made closest approach with our planet on june 29. There may be many undetected asteroids that are threats to earth, including “giant” asteroids more than 1km (0.6 miles) in diameter, according to a new assessment.

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. A new study suggests that millions of tiny space rock fragments, which were ejected from the deliberate 2022 collision between the asteroid dimorphos and nasa’s.