Asteroid 2024 Pt570024. 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. Assembled into this animation, observations from nasa’s goldstone solar system radar show the tumbling asteroid 2024 mk shortly after it made closest.
It is between 120 and 260 m across and will pass within the orbit of the. It was discovered only 13 days.