Asteroid Heading Towards Earth 2024 Dates. After its discovery in 2004, asteroid 99942. The asteroid, named 2024 on, flew safely past our planet at a distance of 620,000 miles (1 million kilometers) — roughly 2.6 times the distance between the moon and earth —.
After its discovery in 2004, asteroid 99942. Part of nasa’s deep space network, the goldstone solar system radar, near barstow in california, will track the object during its next close pass of our planet, in january.