Asteroid 2024 Nb2002r. 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. Asteroid 2024 mk will fly past earth on 29 june at approximately 13:45 utc (15:45 cest).
The close approach of asteroid 2024 on on september 15, 2024, is more than just a spectacle in the sky; Nasa used one telescope to transmit the radio waves, and a second one to receive them, resulting in images of 2024 mk that include not just the shape of the asteroid, but bumps, divots, boulders, and ridges.