Asteroid 2024 Jn161dz. Learn about past and future missions, tracking and predicting orbits, and close approaches to earth. 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.

A newly discovered asteroid has met a colorful and spectacular end above the philippines, exploding in a bright green fireball that was visible for hundreds of miles. On may 14, an asteroid the size of a small vehicle, designated 2024 jn16, made a remarkably close approach to earth.