LIVE Asteroid 2024 ON Approaches Earth Countdown | NASA Eyes @noaming

In a fascinating development regarding a large asteroid, designated 2024 ON, speeding towards Earth. This enormous space object, with a diameter of 720 feet—more than twice the length of two cricket pitches—is expected to pass near our planet on September 17, 2024. Although it will remain at a safe distance of roughly 620,000 miles—about 2.6 times the distance between Earth and the Moon—its impressive speed of 25,000 mph has garnered significant interest.

Managed for NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) accurately characterizes the orbits of all known near-Earth objects, predicts their close approaches with Earth, and makes comprehensive impact hazard assessments in support of the agency’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets with orbits that bring them to within 120 million miles (195 million kilometers) of the Sun, which means they can circulate through the Earth’s orbital neighborhood. Most near-Earth objects are asteroids that range in size from about 10 feet (a few meters) to nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) across.

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