Asteroid Near Earth 2024. Nasa’s asteroid watch dashboard has detected five asteroids approaching earth closely this month. The radar targeted the larger asteroid, 2011 ul21, for nine days and the somewhat smaller.

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); 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.