Asteroid Coming To Earth 2024 Prediction. The asteroid is named apophis, and it will come closer to earth than the satellites that make weather monitoring possible and about 10 times closer than the moon. Managed for nasa at the jet propulsion laboratory, the center for near earth object studies (cneos) accurately characterizes the orbits of all known near.
The close approach of asteroid 2024 on on september 15, 2024, is more than just a spectacle in the sky; Called 2024 dw, the newfound asteroid is about 42 feet (13 meters) wide and will fly within 140,000 miles (225,000 kilometers) of the earth when it passes by us on thursday.