2024 Asteroid

2024 Asteroid. 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). Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere 50 km west of berlin, producing a stunning fireball.

The dashboard displays the date of closest approach, approximate object diameter, relative size and distance. Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere 50 km west of berlin, producing a stunning fireball.