Asteroid Impact October 2024. Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere 50 km. Assembled into this animation, observations from nasa’s goldstone solar system radar show the tumbling asteroid 2024 mk shortly after it made closest.

A tiny asteroid headed for the earth has burned up in a “spectacular fireball” over the philippines, the european space agency (esa) said. This is the 9th asteroid detected by astronomers, so far, that was found just hours before impact.