2 Days Before Christmas Meteor Pass Earth 2024 Nasa

2 Days Before Christmas Meteor Pass Earth 2024 Nasa. August 2024 each month, nasa’s planetary defense coordination office releases a monthly update featuring the most recent figures on nasa’s planetary defense efforts,. The observations caused quite a stir—initial orbital calculations revealed that the asteroid had a 2.7% chance of impacting earth in 2029.

The deep space network’s goldstone planetary radar had a busy few days observing asteroids 2024 mk and 2011 ul21 as they safely passed earth. The radar targeted the larger asteroid, 2011 ul21, for nine days and the somewhat smaller asteroid, 2024 mk, for three days.