Asteroid 2024 Ka2. We observed it while it was. Assembled into this animation, observations from nasa’s goldstone solar system radar show the tumbling asteroid 2024 mk shortly after it made closest.

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. 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);