Asteroid Heading Towards Earth 2024 Nasa

Asteroid Heading Towards Earth 2024 Nasa. Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole. However, even if the asteroid entered our planet’s atmosphere, it would most likely explode as a bright fireball, causing no harm to the objects on the ground.

Apophis is about 1,100 feet (340 meters) in width. The dashboard displays the next five earth approaches to within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the moon);