Asteroid September 2 2024. Nasa telescopes have spotted a small asteroid due to enter our planet's orbit from 29 september. Asteroids that are tens or a few hundreds of metres across, like 2024 on, may only be discovered a few weeks or months before they pass earth but are large enough to.

Technically, 2024 pt5’s loop around the earth is incomplete. 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.