Sharmila Kuthunur is a Seattle-based science journalist covering astronomy, astrophysics and space exploration. Follow her on X @skuthunur.
A small asteroid flew very close to Earth Tuesday morning , just two days after it was discovered by astronomers.2024 JN16 is less than 15 feet wide — about the size of a car. It did not hit Earth but came within a mere 11,500 miles of our planet’s surface when it zipped by at 5:50 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, according toThe space rock belongs to the Apollo asteroid group, whose orbits intersect with that of Earth.
Because it flew so close to Earth, the asteroid appeared to shine at magnitude 13 at its brightest and was therefore visible to telescopes. It is now more than 186,400 miles from Earth in the constellation Serpens, however, and can only be seen using long-exposure photography, according toContact me with news and offers from other Future brandsAsteroid 2024 JN16, seen when it was about 186,400 miles away from Earth on May 14, 2024 — closer than the moon.
Four more asteroids — two of them as big as a house, the third as large as an airplane and the fourth the size of a building — are expected to approach Earth closely but safely on Tuesday, according to estimates from Asteroid Watch, a dashboard of near-Earth asteroids andto keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know...
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