2024 Asteroid. Recently, a smaller asteroid, 2024 pt5, briefly orbited earth as a mini moon. asteroid 2006 wb, about 100 meters wide, will pass by earth on november 26 at a safe. Because it has a similar orbit as our planet, the asteroid will linger as a distant companion for a few months, but it will not be captured.
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. 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.